“How many times can someone bend before they break forever? You have to take care, dealing with broken things sometimes they give way, and break others in their turn.Catriona Ward’s The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House. It relieves a lot of pressure and lets me think.” Hallways, waiting rooms, lobbies and so on rooms where nothing is actually supposed to happen. “I like this kind of place, where you’re in between one thing and another. “The young feel pain intensely, I think, because they don’t know yet how deep it can go.” Ward explains really well how this story evolved and the important messaging throughout. So, buckle up, friends cause even when you think you have it figured out, you probably don’t.Īnd definitely read the author’s note at the end. There’s not just a twist at the end it’s a winding, curvy road. Due to the structure and the multiple points of view (even the cat’s!), it can be a bit confusing and disorienting. There are many layers to both the story and the characters. The Last House on Needless Street is a dark and disturbing story about a reclusive man Ted, his teenage daughter Lauren, and his bible-reading cat Olivia. Thankfully I stuck through it and I am so glad I did.
But it takes me a bit to get into any book so that’s not really new. At first, I really wanted to read it, but then as I do with things that get a lot of hype, I subconsciously tabled it because I worry I won’t enjoy something as much as I expect to.Įventually I got around to starting it and, at first, I was not connecting with it. She read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia. AuthorĬatriona Ward was born in Washington, DC and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three.Ī teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time.Ī man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory.Īnd a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible.Īn unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all. Catriona Ward’s The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House.
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