![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Having never been to the desert, I found the setting strange and exciting, much like Cassie does. ![]() The action quickly shifts out to the Mojave Desert and Rob's old family ranch, where the isolation is real and ghosts seem to hide everywhere. The story is initially set in idyllic California suburbia, where the décor may be perfect and the lifestyle may be aspirational, but real life is rotten to the core. The story is full of twists and turns, all about the secrets that are buried deep within a family and, potentially, within the genes. It's a 'then and now' narrative in which she worries about her troubled daughter, Cassie, and how far she is emulating the violent tendencies her sister, Jack, exhibited as a young adult. Sundial is the story of Rob and her family, both alive and deceased. In many respects, then, Sundial is something of the difficult second album (even though it's the fourth), and Needless Street does definitely haunt the story in some respects. The book last year took the horror/thriller reading community by storm and performed that 'transcendence of the genre' which all publishers love to see, showing up on the BBC's Between the Covers and several Best of the Year roundups. Although Ward has been putting out amazing horror titles for seven years, she is perhaps now best known for The Last House on Needless Street. ![]()
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