*** THE THRILLING RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK *** *** THE BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK *** '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 young 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. An unspeakable secret binds the family together, and when a new neighbour moves in next door, the truth may destroy them all. Because there's something buried in the dark forest at the end of Needless Street. 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
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Gothic fiction and psychological horror offer readers intricate explorations of memory, isolation, and unreliable narrative perspectives. American-born British author Catriona Ward established a wide international readership with her breakout novel The Last House on Needless Street, a psychological suspense story set on the edge of a forest in contemporary America.
Her work consistently features atmospheric dread, complex character psychology, and dark historical elements. Through critically acclaimed releases such as Little Eve, she has achieved recognition across major genre organizations.
Catriona Ward was born in Washington, D.C., to English parents. Due to her father's career as an international economist, she experienced an itinerant childhood across the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco, while frequently visiting Dartmoor. Ward earned a BA in English at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, spent four years training as an actor in New York, and completed a Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia. Before transitioning into full-time fiction writing, she worked for a human rights foundation. Ward lives in London and Devon. Her debut novel Rawblood (also published as The Girl from Rawblood) won the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel at the 2016 British Fantasy Awards and was featured as a WHSmith Fresh Talent selection. She subsequently won her second August Derleth Award for Little Eve, making her the first female author to receive the prize twice, alongside winning the Shirley Jackson Award.
Ward's literary approach combines classic gothic motifs with modern psychological complexity. Her narratives frequently examine themes of trauma, domestic secrecy, hypnagogic experiences, and distorted perception. By utilizing multiple viewpoints, historical settings, and tight claustrophobic environments, her fiction constructs tension around hidden truths and shifting realities.
