Little Eve

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Every page of this story is unsettling and tragic, full of complex characters whose motives are rarely entirely forthcoming.

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After the success of "The Loco-Motion", Boyd was stereotyped as a dance-craze singer and was given limited material. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. Instead this was an historical fiction with seriously gothic overtones, set at the end of World War One and containing the usual gothic elements. The characters were interesting and while you might root for some; others are quite nasty, and you will want to boo and hiss at them. The widely believed story of how the song "The Loco-Motion" came to be is that Carole King was playing music at home and Eva Boyd was doing some chores and started dancing to it; the dance The Loco-Motion was born.Lieutenant Frank Comans of the NAOU set out with a small party to follow the tracks of the survivors. It also reached number 5 in Australia, peaked at number 1 in Canada, and reached number 11 in Germany.

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Much of its impact was due to the skill and personality of its teenage singer Little Eva, who has of died of cervical cancer aged 57. If you have read Ward before you know she is creative and adept at writing vivid and brilliant scenes. Eva recorded the demo for Goffin and King's "One Fine Day", but the song was passed to the Chiffons, rather than being left with Eva herself, who was given the decidedly substandard "Old Smokey Locomotion", which ended her run of hits. Dinah fights for her life, lying on the floor, one of her eyes is scratched and Eve is nowhere to be seen. The family isolated there believes all of the outside world will soon be gone, and only those familiar with the Adder shall survive and therefore rule.

She continued recording and performing throughout the sixties, but her commercial potential plummeted after 1964. Catriona Ward’s writing is dense but absorbing, with a hypnotic quality akin to staring in the unblinking eyes of a giant snake.

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The Cookies backed Little Eva on her third hit, "Let's Turkey Trot", making farmyard noises behind her exuberant vocals. In 2022, following the success of Ward's novels The Last House on Needless Street and Sundial, it was republished in the United States. It was hardly an original piece of choreography, but the Loco-motion was certainly one of the most impressive records produced by the early 1960s vogue for pop dances. I feel like I need to set some reader expectations here--I read this over a Friday-Sunday time period. There are shades of Shirley Jackson here, and shades of THE LONEY; my only (small) complaint is that, as in RAWBLOOD, the reader is given no inkling of which actual religion or cult we're dealing with - I'm sure this is intentional, to avoid upsetting genuine pagans (or Christians, or believers, or cultists of one kind of another) who may not approve of the way in which the ritualistic family environment is depicted, but to sidestep any mention of religion in a story about toxic cultism seems to me a weakness, a hole in the heart of the story.

Hot off the success of The Last House on Needless Street and Sundial, Catriona Ward's 2018-novel, Little Eve was rereleased earlier this month. He helps her back to civilization where she tells the tale of how her family came to be massacred, implicating one person.