2022/20: Sundial -- Catriona Ward

2022/20: Sundial -- Catriona Ward

Pain and fear are like that, an explosion that sets the genes alight. I imagine the flames racing along ... like coal seams catching fire. [loc. 1301]

Every novel by Catriona Ward is unsettling: each is different to the others. Sundial is no exception. Rob is locked in a toxic relationship with her unfaithful husband, Irving. After a crisis involving their daughters Annie and Callie, Rob decides that it's time she and Callie did some serious mother-daughter bonding. They'll have 'the best time ever' at Sundial, the isolated desert house where Rob and her sister Jack grew up. ( Read more... )