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I have often found that when a book is told in dual timelines, I usually gravitate towards one timeline more than the other. She is assigned to live in the community with a black family and is able to experience the poverty that they live with on a daily basis. Ellie signs up to be a part of the SCOPE program that wants to help the black community register to vote.

She is ready to move into the home that she designed with her husband in a new development but feels uneasy about the move. Kayla is a young widow and mother of a small child. This book is told from two different points of view. Diane Chamberlain definitely has a new fan. This book not only entertained me it made me think and sometimes made me rather uncomfortable. To say that I am impressed would be an understatement. This was truly a wonderful book! I have heard great things about this author’s work but for one reason or another I had never actually picked one up myself so this was my first experience with her work. Both on a collision course with the truth-no matter what that truth may bring to light-in Diane Chamberlain's riveting, powerful novel about the search for justice.

And Kayla’s neighbor Ellie Hockley is harboring long buried secrets about the dark history of the land where her house was built. The woods and lake behind the property are reputed to be haunted, and the new home has been targeted by vandals leaving threatening notes. 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. It was supposed to be a home where they could raise their three-year-old daughter and grow old together. And when she loses her heart to a fellow volunteer, Ellie discovers the frightening true nature of the people living in Round Hill.Īrchitect Kayla Carter and her husband designed a beautiful house for themselves in Round Hill’s new development, Shadow Ridge Estates. 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.

She’s chosen to spend her summer break as a volunteer helping to register black voters. Enrolled in college and all but engaged to a bank manager, Ellie isn’t as committed to her expected future as her family believes.

Growing 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. Martin's Press on January 11, 2022Ī 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. The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the Publisher.

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