The Last House on Needless Street: The Bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club Pick

Product Description ***ONE OF THE TIMES BEST THRILLER BOOKS OF 2021****** THE THRILLING RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK ****** THE BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK ****** THE TIMES NO.4 BESTSELLER ***#1 KINDLE BESTSELLERTHE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTHOBSERVER THRILLER OF THE MONTH''I haven't read anything this exciting since Gone Girl' - STEPHEN KING'One of the most extraordinary thrillers of the year' - DAILY MAIL'A dark, audacious highwire act of a novel' - GUARDIAN________________________________________This is the story of a murderer. A stolen child. Revenge. This is the story of Ted, who lives with his daughter Lauren and his cat Olivia in an ordinary house at the end of an ordinary street. All these things are true. And yet some of them are lies.You think you know what's inside the last house on Needless Street. You think you've read this story before. But you're wrong. In the dark forest at the end of Needless Street, something lies buried. But it's not what you think...From the multiple award-winning author of Little Eve and Rawblood, this extraordinary tale will thrill and move readers. A work of incredible imagination and heartbreaking beauty.*** FILM RIGHTS OPTIONED BY IMAGINARIUM PRODUCTIONS ****** RIGHTS SOLD IN TWENTY TERRITORIES ***________________________________________'Catriona Ward is the new face of literary dark fiction' - SARAH PINBOROUGH'Books like this don't come around too often' - JOANNE HARRIS'Believe the hype... a masterclass' - KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE'A chilling and beautiful masterpiece of suspense. I was completely enthralled' - JOE HILL'A masterpiece. Beautiful, heartbreaking and quietly uplifting' - ALEX NORTH Review The buzz building around Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end. Haven't read anything this exciting since Gone Girl -- Stephen King This spectacular gothic fantasy is one of the most extraordinary thrillers of the year so far... Splendidly sinister and twisty, it comes to a magnificent Grand Guignol finale ― Daily Mail A truly captivating Gothic-thriller novel - a champion of the genre, it hooks you in from the very first page... a rare work of fiction that explores the human will to endure ― Independent Ward's superlative novel - part psychological thriller, part Gothic horror - plays countless tricks on the reader and rewards close attention ― Financial Times A chilling masterpiece in suspense... This unsettling yet deeply moving novel is a modern classic, and a major contender for book of the year ― Sunday Express This is Stephen King country, and Catriona Ward's novel is at the horror end of the thriller scale. But this is not horror as you know it... for all the deliberate echoes of Psycho and The Shining, Ward's ambition is closer to William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. The reader is in her hands but never feels manipulated - this is horror with integrity ― The Times This is the most gloriously complex, shifting story, deeply disturbing yet also, somehow, heartwarming ... Ward has created something exceptionally unsettling here, as many-layered and sinister as the Russian doll that sits on Ted's mantelpiece ― Observer The book sits in that twilight margin between psychological thriller and Gothic horror, with Ward, twice the recipient of the August Derleth Award, beautifully wrongfooting the reader every step of the way ― Financial Times This psychological thriller about a recluse and a missing girl has been praised by Stephen King and compared to Shirley Jackson. Unmissable ― The i Ward's gothic thriller unfolds secrets within secrets until its devastating denouement ― Daily Mail Full of twists and turns, this high-concept gothic horror is going to be huge ― Guardian An upmarket horror thriller with shades of Stephen King and William Faulkner ― The Times A truly captivating Gothic-thriller