![]() ![]() 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. She almost got it, too: a husband, two kids, a nice house in the suburbs. You can’t escape what’s in your blood All Rob wanted was a normal life. As a word, ‘unputdownable’ is both ungrammatical and overused, but there is no better description of Ward’s gloriously gothic new novel. Sundial is a new, twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, internationally bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street. Three hours later, I was breathlessly devouring the last few pages. 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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