I had initially been very excited to read this book – but after finishing The Last House on Needless Street I was wary of looking forward to this reading experience. I still held out some hope that this would be different, but despite being two really different books the experience was pretty similar. Ward writes about abuse – not as a voyeur, there’s not very much of the actual abuse itself in the novel, but the impact of abuse in the longer term. How do people who […]

It’s hard to talk about this book without spoilers – and as much as I WANT to talk about it, I really don’t want to spoil it for you, because the revelations are part of the appeal. This is a book about missing children, adults with mental illness, a sort of revenge-plot, and cats. It’s about abuse and survival and hunting. It’s about living on the margins, and making amends with your past. What details can you have about the plot? Well, let’s see … […]