diane chamberlain the last house on the street

She signs up for an initiative that sends young people into the black neighbourhoods to persuade them to register to vote once the president signs the Voter’s Act. Ellie is a young, white, female student who becomes involved in the fight for civil rights. The good stuff is in the past storyline, in 1965, where the reader meets Ellie. As it is, she seemed to spent most of her time complaining about her big windows and the trees on her plot of land, making me wonder why she went along with her husband to build their house there in the first place. I felt that Kayla’s part in this story was very much just tying the two timelines together but part of me thinks that maybe the entire novel would have worked just as well, or maybe even better, without her. As if things aren’t bad enough for Kayla, someone seems set on scaring her away from her property. This is the house she and her husband designed together, but also the house where her husband died before it was even finished. In present day North Carolina, recently widowed Kayla is reluctantly getting ready to move into the house of her dreams. That said though, as often happens with dual timeline stories, I must admit I enjoyed the past storyline more than the present one. There’s something so incredibly absorbing about the way she writes. I have yet to read a Diane Chamberlain novel that I didn’t enjoy. As tensions rise in the town, she realises not everyone is who they appear to be.ĭecades later, past and present are set to collide in the last house on the street…

A young white female student becomes involved in the fight for civil rights in North Carolina, falling in love with one of her fellow activists, in a time and place where an interracial relationship must be hidden from family, friends and especially the reemerging Ku Klux Klan.

A past that some will go to any lengths to keep hidden.ġ965. Who is trying to frighten her away, and why? It is only when she meets an elderly neighbour that she learns the street has a shocking and tragic past. But when disturbing things begin to happen, it’s clear that someone is sending her a warning. A recently widowed architect moves into the home she and her late husband designed, heartbroken that he will never cross the threshold.

Diane chamberlain the last house on the street