As a huge fan of "The Last House On Needless Street", I was excited to read whatever Catriona Ward came up with next. I found it hard to put "Sundial" down, feeling compelled to read from the opening pages. Ward starts us off on reasonably familiar ground - a suburban family, chickenpox, a party - and gradually, insidiously the uneasiness creeps in. It's very skillfully done. The book lingers like a curse, the pages calling for attention whilst you're busy doing other things, keen to return to the weird world of Ward's creation. "Sundial" is a difficult book to review without spoilers, suffice it to say it's as dark, twisted and difficult to define as we've come to expect from Catriona Ward.