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

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The new modern gothic masterpiece from the bestselling and award-winning author of The Last House on Needless Street.
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 of what Callie might do to her. Rob sees a darkness in Callie, one that reminds her of the family she left behind. Desperate to keep Annie safe, 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...

A stunning thriller exploring the toxicity of the mother-daughter bond, and the power of the past to twist the present.

Reviews

'A story where nothing is what it seems - a thrilling hall of mirrors full of deeply disturbing twists. This book will haunt you' - Alex Michaelides, author of The Silent Patient

'I wish more thrillers were this witty, this cunning, and this impossible-to-put-down. Sundial is a heart-in-the-throat smash' - Joe Hill

'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

'As brilliant and moving as you would expect from a Catriona Ward book' - Sarah Pinborough

'If you love toe-clenching horror, you will have the time of your life' - Stylist

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 and the Richard & Judy Book Club. Catriona lives in London and Devon.