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** A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2023 **

‘Ward’s most complex and brilliant book yet’ – GUARDIAN
‘A darkly moving and heartfelt exploration of obsession’ – DAILY EXPRESS

Writers are monsters. We eat everything we see…

In a windswept cottage overlooking the sea, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of his childhood companions and the shadowy figure of the Daggerman, who stalked the New England town where they spent their summers. Of a horror that has followed Wilder through the decades. And of Sky, Wilder’s one-time friend, who stole his unfinished memoir and turned it into a lurid bestselling novel, The Sound and the Dagger.

This book will be Wilder’s revenge on Sky, who betrayed his trust and died without ever telling him why. But as he writes, Wilder begins to find notes written in Sky’s signature green ink, and events in his manuscript start to chime eerily with the present. Is Sky haunting him? And who is the dark-haired woman drowning in the cove, whom no one else can see?

No longer able to trust his own eyes, Wilder feels his grip on reality slipping. And he begins to fear that this will not only be his last book, but the last thing he ever does.

Discover the new dark thriller from the bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street.

‘So beautiful, so dark and so vivid’ – JENNIFER SAINT
‘A beautifully sinister tale of perception and identity’ – JOANNE HARRIS
‘Enthralling and heartbreaking’ – M.R. CAREY

Publisher Review

One of the finest literary craftsmen currently working is writing horror. Looking Glass Sound is a masterclass in atmosphere. Nearly every sentence is faultless, gutting and precise. Come for the family secrets but stay for the humanity, tenderness, and empathy that are so central to Ward's storytelling. This book will truly haunt you long after you read -- Olivie Blake, author of THE ATLAS SIX Stephen King meets Atonement meets... screw it, you've read nothing like it before. This is so much more than a horror novel. Impossibly compelling, brilliantly plotted and incredibly moving all at once. This is Catriona Ward at her most special, most intimate and most ambitious. I think at this point we can all just agree to follow Ward wherever she takes us -- Virginia Feito, author of MRS MARCH So, so brilliant. I felt like I was on a roller coaster. Her characters, the way she weaves together all the storylines, the reveals - all of them brilliantly done, and all while my heart was banging out of my chest -- Lisa Hall, author of THE PERFECT COUPLE One of those books that as soon as you finish reading you immediately want to read again. Darkly mind-bending and softly gut-wrenching, this is another masterpiece from the incomparable Catriona Ward -- S.J.I. Holliday, author of THE DEATHS OF DECEMBER PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR: If you are a thriller fan, a mystery fan, and/or a horror fan, DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK -- Stephen King One of the most talented writers working in the thriller genre today -- Alex Michaelides This spectacular gothic fantasy is one of the most extraordinary thrillers of the year * Daily Mail * A truly captivating Gothic-thriller novel - a champion of the genre, it hooks you in from the very first page * Independent * A chilling masterpiece in suspense... This unsettling yet deeply moving novel is a modern classic, and a major contender for book of the year * Sunday Express *