the last house on needless street synopsis

A strange, secluded lot, they are found dead and laid out inside a stone circle on the grounds as if for a sacrifice – killed by Evelyn, one of the daughters, in her madness.

The book is a split narrative, framed around a horrible multiple murder of the family at Altnaharra island, outside of the town of Loyal. A book about Bats and Squirrels gave me the heebie-jeebies, what would a real, age-appropriate horror book do? When her latest book, Little Eve, was made available on Netgalley I was excited and nervous. Her debut, Rawblood, won the award for Best Horror Novel at the British Fantasy Awards in 2016, and was WH Smith’s Fresh Talent Title in autumn that year. However, I was fortunate enough to meet Catriona Ward at Gollanczfest last November, and she was an excellent advertisement for her books. I read one very dark fantasy book when I was a kid ( The Oaken Throne, by Robin Jarvis, which felt brutal for my age) and that put the wiggins in me for weeks. I generally avoid horror films, and I have never actually read a horror book myself. I am not the usual market for horror books. As past and present converge, only one woman can be telling the truth. In a great storm, in the depths of winter, as the old year dies, the locals discover a devastating scene on the Isle.Įve and Dinah’s accounts of that night contradict and intertwine. As the solitude of Altnaharra is broken, Eve’s faith and sanity fracture. Dinah longs for something other.īut the world is at war and cannot be kept at bay. She is untroubled save by her dreams of soft arms and a woman singing.

All they know is the grey Isle of Altnaharra which sits in the black sea off the wildest coast of Scotland.Įve loves the free, savage life of the Isle and longs to inherit Uncle’s power. They are raised among the Children, a community of strays and orphans ruled by a mysterious figure they call Uncle. See Also: Rawblood | The Last House on Needless StreetĮve and Dinah are everything to one another, never parted day or night.

The last house on needless street synopsis