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Sundial

Catriona Ward

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*** FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET, A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK ***

'A thrilling hall of mirrors filled with deeply disturbing twists' - ALEX MICHAELIDES

'A desert-dust nightmare with a scorpion's sting, and I loved it' - EMMA STONEX

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You can't escape the desert. You can't escape Sundial.

Rob fears for her daughters. For Callie, who collects tiny bones and whispers to imaginary friends. For Annie, because she fears what Callie might do to her. Rob sees a darkness in Callie, one that reminds her of the family she left behind. She decides to take Callie back to her childhood home, to Sundial, deep in the Mojave Desert. And there she will have to make a terrible choice.

Callie is afraid of her mother. Rob has begun to look at her strangely. To tell her secrets about her past that both disturb and excite her. And Callie is beginning to wonder if only one of them will leave Sundial alive...

From the bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street comes a stunning thriller exploring the toxicity of the mother-daughter bond, and the power of the past to twist the present.

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'Ambitious, brutal and breathtakingly original' - TAMMY COHEN

'A wild, twisted family gothic unlike any you've read before' - PAUL TREMBLAY

'Dark and unsettling, creepy and enthralling' - LISA HALL

'Evocative, lyrical and beautiful. I loved it' - ARAMINTA HALL

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Praise for Sundial

  • 'Surely one of the most talented writers working in the thriller genre today, and Sundial is a great place to start. A story where nothing is what it seems - a thrilling hall of mirrors full of deeply disturbing twists. This book will haunt you' - The Silent Patient'Elegantly horrifying, this tale of a family's darker-than-dark past drives the knife in deep and isn't afraid to twist. It's a desert-dust nightmare with a scorpion's sting, and I loved it' - The Lamplighters'If you love toe-clenching horror, you will have the time of your life' - Stylist'Sundial plumbs the psychological depths and traps of toxic relationships, expertly mixing suspense, shocks, and menace. It's a wild, twisted family gothic unlike any you've read before and one you won't soon forget' - A Headful of Ghosts

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Catriona Ward

Catriona Ward

Catriona Ward was born in Washington, DC and grew up in the US, Kenya,

Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. Her debut Rawblood won Best Horror Novel at

the 2016 British Fantasy Awards, and was a WHSmith Fresh Talent title. Little Eve

won the Shirley Jackson Award, was a Guardian best book of 2018 and won the Best

Horror Novel at the 2019 British Fantasy Awards. She lives in London and Devon.

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