Looking Glass Sound: from the bestselling and award winning author of The Last House on Needless Street

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** AN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF YEAR **

'Ward's most complex and brilliant book yet' - GUARDIAN
'A darkly moving and heartfelt exploration of obsession' - DAILY EXPRESS

Writers are monsters. We eat everything we see...

In a windswept cottage overlooking the sea, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of his childhood companions and the shadowy figure of the Daggerman, who stalked the New England town where they spent their summers. Of a horror that has followed Wilder through the decades. And of Sky, Wilder's one-time friend, who stole his unfinished memoir and turned it into a lurid bestselling novel, The Sound and the Dagger.

This book will be Wilder's revenge on Sky, who betrayed his trust and died without ever telling him why. But as he writes, Wilder begins to find notes written in Sky's signature green ink, and events in his manuscript start to chime eerily with the present. Is Sky haunting him And who is the dark-haired woman drowning in the cove, whom no one else can see

No longer able to trust his own eyes, Wilder feels his grip on reality slipping. And he begins to fear that this will not only be his last book, but the last thing he ever does.

'So beautiful, so dark and so vivid' - JENNIFER SAINT
'A beautifully sinister tale of perception and identity' - JOANNE HARRIS
'Enthralling and heartbreaking' - M.R. CAREY

Reviews

'A wonderful piece of Gothic sleight-of-hand; a beautifully sinister tale of perception and identity that had me enthralled from the first page' - Joanne Harris, author of CHOCOLAT

'A tricksy book... Genuinely unsettling' - The Times

'Eerie and disturbing, it is another darkly atmospheric slice of the literary horror/thriller genre that Ward is making her own' - Observer

'Ward's most complex and brilliant book yet... Intense, psychologically acute and atmospheric' - Guardian

'A slow-burn psycho-thriller in which Lewis Carroll meets Stephen King' - Times (Crime Club)

Author Bio

Catriona Ward was born in Washington, DC and grew up in the US, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. She is the bestselling author of Sundial and The Last House on Needless Street, which was both a Richard and Judy Book Club and BBC2 Between the Covers Book Club pick. She lives in London and Devon.