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Looking Glass Sound
Catriona Ward
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Beschreibung
** 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
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<b>One of the finest literary craftsmen currently working is writing horror. <i>Looking Glass Sound </i>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'
<b>Unbelievably good... so clever, so haunting and melancholic. A novel about obsession, love and loss; an exploration of trauma and delusion; a meditation on writing and what it means to create, to be trapped in a world of your own making, tormented by your own characters. It'
<b>A wonderful piece of Gothic sleight-of-hand; a beautifully sinister tale of perception and identity that had me enthralled from the first page</b>
<b>This gripping horror is a masterful exploration of storytelling. It will lure you to the dark side before quietly blowing your mind, time after time. A haunting tale of friendship, creativity and revenge, with prose as deep and sweeping as the cliffs of Looking Glass Sound itself</b>
<b>Brilliantly atmospheric and creepy with unforgettable characters</b>
<b>Ward'
<b>Devastatingly beautiful, bone-chilling and enchanting. <i>Looking Glass Sound </i>is further proof that no one writes like Catriona Ward. No one conjures such heartbreak from such raw fear. An alchemist of storytelling</b>
<b>Genuinely unsettling</b>
<b>I loved every word... an irresistible, beautifully written story powered by dread and fascination with the unknown</b>
<b>A darkly moving and heartfelt exploration of obsession and betrayal that lingers long in the memory</b>
<b>An evocative, bone-chilling read, exploring grief storytelling and the dark forces of obsession. Catriona'
<b>Relentlessly inventive, insidiously creepy and just so cool and clever. I inhaled it in two days. It's nightmarish, dreamy, luminous with beauty and menace. I can'
<b>This twisted tale of ghosts and murderers, derailed lives and childhood traumas is a vertical labyrinth that will take you straight down into the heart of darkness. Enthralling and heartbreaking</b>
<b>Eerie and disturbing, it is another darkly atmospheric slice of the literary horror/thriller genre that Ward is making her own</b>
<b>A slow-burn psycho-thriller in which Lewis Carroll meets Stephen King</b>
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