The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain

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A community's past sins rise to the surface in New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain's The Last House on the Street when two women, a generation apart, find themselves bound by tragedy and an unsolved, decades-old mystery.1965Growing up in the well-to-do town of Round Hill, North Carolina, Ellie Hockley was raised to be a certain type of proper Southern lady. Enrolled in college and all but engaged to a bank manager, Ellie isn't as committed to her expected future as her family believes. She's chosen to spend her summer break as a volunteer helping to register black voters. But as Ellie follows her ideals fighting for the civil rights of the marginalized, her scandalized parents scorn her efforts, and her neighbors reveal their prejudices. And when she loses her heart to a fellow volunteer, Ellie discovers the frightening true nature of the people living in Round Hill. 2010Architect Kayla Carter and her husband designed a beautiful house for themselves in Round Hill's new development, Shadow Ridge Estates. It was supposed to be a home where they could raise their three-year-old daughter and grow old together. Instead, it's the place where Kayla's husband died in an accident—a fact known to a mysterious woman who warns Kayla against moving in.

  • Product Features

    • Suggested age range - adult
    • Format - paperback
    • Product dimensions - 5.3" W x 8.1" H x 1" D
    • Genre - fiction
    • Publisher - St. Martin's Publishing Group, Publication date - 01-17-2023
    • Page count - 384
    • ISBN - 9781250267986
    • Author - Diane Chamberlain

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1 year ago
from Mississippi

A Must Read

This book was different than I thought it was going to be, in a good way! I enjoyed this book and was surprised at some of the twists in the story. I will definitely recommend this book!

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2 years ago
from Las VEgas, NV

Great Read

So I almost skipped this book and that really would have been a travesty because this book was GOOD. It was not what I expected (I thought I was getting a thriller) and what I actually got was more historical fiction with a mystery, but I still really enjoyed it. There are two timelines and two povs in the story. The current timeline belongs to Kayla, who is moving into her dream house that she and her architect husband designed and built. Unfortunately the house is also the scene of his death. He slipped on screws during the building of the house and fell down a staircase. Now newly widowed, Kayla and her four year old daughter move into the house and as soon as they do, strange things, foreboding things, begin happening. The second timeline belongs to Ellie in the 60s. Ellie is a college student who becomes a freedom fighter during the civil rights movement. Ellie's storyline is the one I felt was most compelling and tugged at my heartstrings. Ellie also happens to have grown up in the area where Kayla's new house has been built. This was really, really close to being a five star read for me. The only thing that held it back for me was the the characters weren't making connections that I thought were pretty obvious. Otherwise, a great read.

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2 years ago
from California

Hated the ending...

I would classify THE LAST HOUSE ON THE STREET by Diane Chamberlain as historical fiction, a gut-wrenching story told from alternating timelines. The first centers around a young college student, Ellie Hockley, who, in the year 1965, spends her summer break as a volunteer for SCOPE—the Summer Community Organization and Political Education project—a group of college students helping to register black voters. After orientation and training at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia, Ellie, along with her fellow volunteers, is sent to the town Turner’s Bend in her home state of North Carolina, wherein each volunteer stays with hosting family, spreading the word about the importance of registering to vote throughout the community, as they wait for LBJ to sign the voter’s rights bill into law. Though met with life-threatening resistance, the volunteers refused to give up—including Ellie, whose racist family lives in the neighboring town of Round Hill—demands she comes home. In the second timeline, set in 2010, young widow Kayla Carter and her three-year-daughter are getting ready to move into the house Kayla and her deceased husband Jackson designed and had built at the end of Hockley street, when a mysterious woman warns Kayla against moving into the house. THE LAST HOUSE ON THE STREET was a difficult read, a gut-wrenching narrative that ripped my heart out. At various points throughout the book, the budding relationship between Ellie and one of the volunteers warmed my heart tremendously. By the end of the book, I felt enraged at the lack of justice. Thank you, NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press, for providing me with an eBook of THE LAST HOUSE ON THE STREET at the request of an honest review.

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