Synopsis
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.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9781788166195
- Number of pages: 352
- Dimensions: 238 x 160 x 34 mm
- Weight: 560g
- Languages: English
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Brilliantly challenging
Anyone who read The Last House on Needless Street will be wondering what is to come next from this author. That book was so brilliantly unexpected and out ... READ MORE
A must read
I loved ‘The last house on needless’ and was so excited to read this book and it did not disappoint.
I love the authors writing style, especially the wa... READ MORE
Fantastic Read!
Sundial by Catriona Ward
I give this book 4.5 stars
Rob fears for her daughters. For Callie and Annie.She sees a darkness in Callie and decides to take ... READ MORE
Elegantly dark and surprising
A dysfunctional family, threats, secrets and strange pasts.
Yet again I am finding it difficult to review a Catriona Ward novel, but for all the right rea... READ MORE
A Dark Twisty Psychological Thriller.
Rob appears to have everything she ever wanted, a husband, two daughters Callie and Annie and a lovely home but her life could not possibly be that perfect... READ MORE
Strangely compelling
Catriona Ward has got to be one of the best thriller writers around at the moment. I loved The Last House on Needless Street (although it was strange) and ... READ MORE
BOOM - She's done it again!
This was a heck of a ride. After reading The Last House on Needless Street I was expecting the book to mess with my head and it certainly did that.
Readi... READ MORE
Fantastic horror
Catriona Ward knows how to write horror!
I adored The Last House on Needless Street and the moment I saw Sundial, I knew I must read it.
It's much differ... READ MORE
If you like your thrillers dark
If you loved The Last House on Needless Street then you will love this dark thriller Sundial from Catriona Ward. No spoilers here but I highly recommend th... READ MORE
Seriously addictive stuff!
Having read "The Last House on Needless Street" by Catriona Ward, I was delighted to be able to read an advanced copy of "Sundial" on NetGalley. This is a... READ MORE
Sundial by Catriona Ward
Rob and Irving have two beautiful daughters, rewarding teaching careers, they live in a good neighbourhood and take the utmost care of their house. Life, o... READ MORE
A rollercoaster of creeping dread
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley in return for a fair and honest review.
I feel like I’ve been on a rollercoaster after... READ MORE
Tense
Reading Sundial by Catriona Ward is the emotional equivalent of being savaged by a pack of wild dogs...or coyotes. It is a tense, and imaginative book and ... READ MORE
Sundial by Catriona Ward
Sundial by Catriona Ward is a twisted psychological horror story, which is based primarily in the Mojave Desert. It is Rob’s story based on her childhood w... READ MORE
Sundial
WOW! This book. Kinda freaked me out. Not having read Needless Street (something I will change as soon as I get my hands on a copy) I really didn't know wh... READ MORE
Seriously disturbing work of literary psychological horror
‘You can't escape the desert. You can't escape Sundial.’
My thanks to Serpent’s Tail/Viper for an eARC via NetGalley of ‘Sundial’ by Catriona Ward in exc... READ MORE
Catriona Ward cements her place as The Quenn of Unease
Catriona Ward cements her position as The Queen of Unease with her new offering, Sundial. A tale of toxic motherhood and long held secrets.
Rob is a wif... READ MORE
I won't forget the click of claws on floorboards, chilling!
Okay, so this book is pretty out there. I thought that it would be a regular thriller in the same vein as 'We Need to Talk About Kevin', and it does start ... READ MORE
Just missed the mark for me
Title - Sundial
Author - Catriona Ward
Release Date - 10th March 2022
Page Count - 338
Read Time - 10hrs
Rating - ⭐️⭐️⭐️/3 stars
Any form or art is subje... READ MORE
Horrifyingly brilliant!
The less said about the plot the better, so suffice it to say that this centres on Rob, her daughters Callie and Annie and with her marriage to serial phil... READ MORE
Dark and creepy
I have to say, at the outset, that some readers will find the subject matter unpalatable but this is a horror story!
The plot centres on Rob, her two daug... READ MORE
No spoilers for this 5-star read :)
I loved the author’s previous novel so was excited to receive a copy of Sundial.
Over the last decade or so, I’ve fallen out of the habit of reading horro... READ MORE
A strange and disturbingly compelling story
Thank you to the author, publishers Viper and NetGalley UK for access to this as an advance reader’s ebook. This is an honest and voluntary review.
Nature... READ MORE
Trigger warning
I have been struggling with this one - after The Last House on Needless Street I was looking forward to Catriona Ward’s next book and got even more excited... READ MORE