SUNDIAL
《日晷》
by Catriona Ward
本书已获多家媒体赞誉！
并进入恐怖小说作家协会伯兰·史杜克“最高成就”奖最终选名单，获奖者将于六月公布！
中文书名：《日晷》
英文书名：SUNDIAL
作 者：Catriona Ward
出 版 社：Viper
代理公司：ANA London/ANA/Conor
页 数：352页
出版时间：2022年3月
代理地区：中国大陆、台湾
审读资料：电子稿
类 型：惊悚悬疑
版权已授：丹麦、法国、德国、希腊、意大利、荷兰、波兰、俄罗斯、西班牙、土耳其
本书已获多家媒体赞誉！
STYLIST杂志将卡特里奥娜·沃德的《日晷》选为“2022年你不能错过的小说书”之一！
Stylist magazine has chosen Catriona Ward’s SUNDIAL as one of ‘The Fiction Books You Can’t Miss in 2022’, with the following endorsement:
‘From the author of The Last House On Needless Street, Sundial is a creepy, disturbing and twisted tale of mothers and daughters and well-hidden family secrets. If you love toe-clenching horror, you will have the time of your life.’
- Stylist
《纽约时报》“2022年最佳图书”之一，《书单》(Booklist)也大力推荐这本书！
‘An upmarket psychological thriller that gives most literary novels a run for its money. Overwrought mother Rob has two daughters - sweet little Annie and her odd big sister, Callie, who collects the bones of animals (did she kill a puppy?). Rob - who, it becomes apparent, is a touch unhinged too; something dark happened in her childhood - is worried that Callie will harm Annie, so she takes her to her childhood home deep in the Mojave Desert. Will they both return?’
- The Times
‘Ward reveals details with restraint, keeping the reader hooked on every terrifying detail. With violence to animals, uncomfortable familial relationships, harsh landscapes, and compoundingly terrifying twists, Sundial will transfix readers until the final shocking conclusions. For fans of gut-wrenching psychological horror where bad things happen to flawed-but-sympathetic characters.’
– Booklist
GoodReads最佳恐怖小说之一
LibraryReads top 10
水石书店“最令人期待的书”之一
《出版者周刊》星级书评
‘With this masterful horror novel, Ward weaves a seething, hallucinatory tale of family, death, and hereditary trauma that will keep readers guessing all the way to the devastating conclusion…This is a must-read for fans of gothic literature and taut psychological thrillers.’
– Publishers Weekly
亚马逊网站“本月最佳科幻小说和幻想书”
Apple Books月度最佳
In further good news, following its US publication last week, we are delighted to see that SUNDIAL has been reviewed by Apple Books and chosen as a ‘Best Book of the Month’
The review is attached and below and, on Apple Books: apple.co/bestbooks
‘Something deeply unsettling occurs in almost every scene of Catriona Ward’s trippy modern gothic. In the book’s opening chapters, we are introduced to “Rob the teacher who lives in the suburbs with [her] handsome sciencey professor husband” and the couple’s two young daughters, Annie and Callie. Rob and Irving’s marriage is a horror show of resentments, infidelity, and cruelty; their older daughter, Callie, “likes to talk about murder at breakfast.” Fearing for her frail younger daughter’s safety - and eager to get away from Irving - Rob whisks away Callie to her childhood home in the bleak California desert, where things get even more sinister. As she did with her bestseller, The Last House on Needless Street, Ward proves herself to be a master of weirdness and ominous suspense with a keen sense of the way trauma reverberates through a life. We couldn’t put Sundial down, even though we were frightened of what secrets were about to be unearthed.’
– Apple Books
BookRiot “2022年最棒的10本恐怖小说”之一
The website BookRiot.com has chosen Catriona Ward’s SUNDIAL as one of the ’10 Best Horror Books of 2022’ with the following endorsement:
The full article can read here: The 10 Best Horror Books of 2022 | Book Riot
本书已进入恐怖小说作家协会伯兰·史杜克“最高成就”奖最终选名单，获奖者将于六月公布！
Catriona Ward’s SUNDIAL has made it through to the final ballot for the Horror Writers Association 2022 Bram Stoker Awards in the category of ‘Superior Achievement in a Novel’! The winners will be announced in June and we hope to bring further good news then. In the meantime, further information can be found on their website: https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/front-page/the-2022-bram-stoker-awards-final-ballot/
