Sundial: from the author of Sunday Times bestseller The Last House on Needless Street

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

'A wild, twisted family gothic unlike any you've read before' - PAUL TREMBLAY
'A unique and superbly written psychological horror' - ESSIE FOX
'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
'Dark and unsettling, creepy and enthralling' - LISA HALL
'Evocative, lyrical and beautiful. I loved it' - ARAMINTA HALL

Reviews

'The new face of literary dark fiction' - Sarah Pinborough

'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' - Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters

'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' - Paul Tremblay, author of A Headful of Ghosts

'Catriona Ward has done it again. What happens when the evil in our souls destroys the good When the ghosts we see are real A unique and superbly written psychological horror from a talented writer at the top of her game' - Essie Fox, author of Somnambulist

'There's dark and then there's Catriona Ward dark. Ambitious, brutal and breathtakingly original, Sundial horrifies and impresses in equal measure' - Tammy Cohen, author of When She Was Bad

Author Bio

Catriona Ward was born in Washington, DC and grew up in the US, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen and Morocco. She is the author of Rawblood and Little Eve, both of which won Best Horror Novel at the British Fantasy Awards, and she has also received the Shirley Jackson Award. Her third novel, The Last House on Needless Street, was a Times bestseller, The Times and Observer Thriller of the Month, and was chosen for BBC2's Between the Covers Book Club with Sara Cox.