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Catriona Ward

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CATRIONA WARD was born in Washington, DC and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. She read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia. 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. Stephen King called Sundial ‘Authentically terrifying…. Do not miss this book.’

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. Esquire magaz
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The Last House on Needless ...

3.85 avg rating — 102,585 ratings — published 2021 — 59 editions
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Sundial

3.80 avg rating — 19,639 ratings — published 2022 — 11 editions
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Looking Glass Sound

3.49 avg rating — 11,454 ratings — published 2023 — 17 editions
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Little Eve

3.75 avg rating — 8,288 ratings — published 2018 — 21 editions
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The Girl from Rawblood

3.38 avg rating — 2,862 ratings — published 2015 — 19 editions
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Sundial - Sneak Peek

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"4.5 stars rounded up to 5 for the absolute masterpiece that was the main story. The ending went a little too off the rails for my liking but it might be someone’s cup of tea. This probably would’ve fallen into my top ten of the year if it wasn’t for " Read more of this review »
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"How do you know if you're the one telling your own story? Does it belong to you and you alone, or do the others involved - no matter how tangientially - have a claim?
Wilder Harlow has never really gotten over the summer at Whistler bay, where he and" Read more of this review »
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"This book follows Wilder Harlow who has returned to the place of his childhood holidays to begin the last book he will ever write, the story of his childhood friends and the horror that has stalked him for the past few decades. But as he begins to se" Read more of this review »
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“Anyway the trick to life is, if you don’t like what is happening, go back to sleep until it stops.”
Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street

“The young feel pain intensely, I think, because they don’t know yet how deep it can go.”
Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street

“Everything in life is a rehearsal for loss. Only the smart people know it.”
Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street

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