Dee is certain that Lulu is still alive, and the key to finding her lies at the end of Needless Street.
That is, everyone except her sister, Dee. The girl is known as Lulu to her family, who in the decade since her disappearance have given up hope to ever find her alive.
They’ve been especially raucous in a rock-to-window vanguard ever since the latest disappearance: a child known to Ted as Little Girl with Popsicle, as per the Missing posters strewn up and down his block. Are they ghosts who live in the wretchedly creepy old house? Are they demons? The house seems to be draped in mystery, particularly for the folks who walk past it with a vocal curiosity as to whether Ted is the one who’s been kidnapping all these kids. Oh, and some entities who he calls the green boys in the attic. He also lives with a belligerent bout of alcoholism. He lives alone with his cat Olivia and daughter Lauren. Of course, all eyes fall to the nearest suspects, the primary of whom is Ted. A grip of vanishings over a relatively short amount of time. A haven full of sunbathers, ice cream stands, sandcastles…and missing children. There’s a lake at the end of Needless Street, a place families have enjoyed for generations. In The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward introduces us to Ted Bannerman, a gentleman who lives in the novel’s storied namesake. Much like a Russian doll, rarely does a person’s demeanor and personality express the whole of what’s within. And the more we limit our own playtime with the world outside, the more elaborate we can tend to paint the leaves of our environment.
Everyone’s world is theirs alone, as translated by each of our grey matter inhabitants. As someone who has had ample experience with both mind-altering drugs and mind-altering head injuries, I can comfortably attest to the magnitude of the human brain’s aptitude for trippiness.
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