The Last House on Needless Street
In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible. An 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.
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Ted Bannerman lives in the last house on a wooded dead-end street with his cat Olivia and his daughter Lauren, who is only sometimes there. A young woman named Dee moves in next door under a fake name to investigate the disappearance of her younger sister from a lake eleven years earlier.
Yes. The Last House on Needless Street is widely cited as one of the most genuinely unsettling horror novels of the 2020s. Stephen King and Tana French both publicly praised the novel. The structure rewards readers willing to be patient with multiple unreliable narrators.
The Last House on Needless Street was written by Catriona Ward, published in 2021 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.
The Last House on Needless Street is 352 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Last House on Needless Street takes most readers 5 to 8 hours to finish.
The Last House on Needless Street is a standalone novel by Catriona Ward, not part of a series.
The Last House on Needless Street is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
