She left Sundial many years ago, swearing never to go back, but now she suspects it will give her the answers she's been looking for. But when her eldest daughter Callie starts acting strange and her husband seems to encourage it, Rob decides the best thing for everyone is to take Callie to Sundial, the desert town where she grew up. On the surface, Rob has the family she's always dreamed of: a husband and two beautiful daughters. But after finishing Sundial, I'm not sure I totally got it. She lives in London and Devon.Īfter thoroughly enjoying The Last House on Needless Street, I was excited to see what else Catriona Ward has up her sleeve. Her short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and have been shortlisted for various prizes.

Ward’s debut Rawblood (2015 - W&N, Sourcebooks) also won the 2016 August Derleth, making her the only woman to have won the prize three times. Nightfire will publish Little Eve for the first time in the US in 2022. Ward’s second novel Little Eve (2018 - W&N, Tor Nightfire) won the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award, the August Derleth Prize at the British Fantasy Awards and was a Guardian best book of 2018. Haven't read anything this exciting since GONE GIRL.’ It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end. Stephen King said of The Last House on Needless Street, ‘I was blown away. The Last House on Needless Street is being developed for film by Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish’s production company, The Imaginarium. Rights have been sold in twenty-nine territories, it was a Richard and Judy Book Club selection, a Times Book of the Month, Observer Book of the Month, March Editor’s Pick on Radio 4’s Open Book, a Between the Covers BBC2 book club selection and a Sunday Times bestseller. Esquire magazine listed it as one of the top 25 best horror novels of all time. Ward’s third breakout novel The Last House on Needless Street (2021 - Viper, Tor Nightfire) won the August Derleth Prize and has been shortlisted for the Kitschies, the British Book Awards, the South Bank Award, and the World Fantasy Award. Stephen King called Sundial ‘Authentically terrifying…. Her fourth novel, the gothic thriller Sundial (2022 - Viper, Tor Nightfire) was Observer Thriller of the Month and a USA Today, CNN and Apple Books selection for best new fiction. She read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia. CATRIONA WARD was born in Washington, DC and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco.

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