THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET
Ted lives with his daughter Lauren and a cat named Olivia in a perfectly ordinary house at the end of a perfectly ordinary street. Except, of course, nothing here is ordinary at all. There's a missing child, a secret buried somewhere in the dark trees, and a new neighbour whose arrival threatens to bring the whole fragile arrangement crashing down. What looks like a straightforward domestic setup turns out to be something far stranger and more unsettling than you'd ever anticipate. Catriona Ward, the award-winning author of Little Eve and Rawblood, writes with a kind of controlled ferocity that keeps you constantly off-balance. The story shifts and mutates as it goes, each revelation reshaping what came before it. It's deeply disturbing in places, yet it manages, against all reasonable expectation, to carry genuine warmth at its core. That combination is rare, and Ward pulls it off with real confidence. Stephen King called it the most exciting thing he'd read since Gone Girl. The Guardian, the Observer, and the Daily Mail all queued up with praise. It's not hard to see why. This is the kind of novel that makes you question what you think you know about the story you're reading, right up until the final pages. Gothic, psychologically rich, and quietly heartbreaking, it's a thriller that lingers well after you've finished it.
- Author: Catriona Ward
- Publisher: Viper
- Genre: Horror
- ISBN: 978-1788166188
- Pages: 352 pages