Her youth resembles more a sojourn on the island of Doctor Moreau than a conventional American childhood. Why does Rob tolerate Irving’s philandering and physical abuse, not to mention his pandering to their eerie eldest, Callie, and her unhealthy preoccupation with what is dead – or, as Callie puts it, ‘pale’? He must, we think, know something about Rob that we don’t.Īs the story unfolds, we learn about Rob’s upbringing with her sister at Sundial, a remote ranch in Arizona. The book is grotesque from the outset, as we meet Rob and her husband, Irving, who inhabit a horror story of a marriage. As a word, ‘unputdownable’ is both ungrammatical and overused, but there is no better description of Ward’s gloriously gothic new novel. Ward is the internationally bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street. 1 day ago &0183 &32 Looking Glass Sound (Viper), the latest thriller from The Last House on Needless Street author Catriona Ward, opens as a coming-of-age story told through Wilder’s unpublished memoir of his. Three hours later, I was breathlessly devouring the last few pages. Ward won the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel for her debut, The Girl from Rawblood, and again for Little Eve, making her the first woman to win the prize twice. I picked up Catriona Ward’s labyrinthine thriller Sundial at 11pm on a Sunday, intending to read a chapter or two before bed.
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