He’s even started seeing a dark-haired woman down in the icy waters below the cottage, but nobody else can. But as he writes, Wilder begins to fear his grip on the truth is fading, and events in the manuscript start to chime eerily with the present. Wilder has returned to the town decades later in an attempt to recount that summer's events in his memoirs.

This book will truly haunt you long after you read. Come for the family secrets but stay for the humanity, tenderness, and empathy that are so central to Ward's storytelling. Nearly every sentence is faultless, gutting and precise. Of a horror that has followed them over the years. Looking Glass Sound is a masterclass in atmosphere. Of the terrible tragedy that forever bonded him with his friends Nat and Harper in unknowable ways. It is the story of a sun-drenched summer of his youth and of the killer that stalked the small New England town. I am a huge Ward fan, I have read all of her books and have absolutely adored them all, and I was so looking forward to looking glassbut man, am I disappointed. Has anyone else read it yet Spoilers ahead.

In a cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward - discussion Hi all, I just finished Looking Glass Sound and need to unpack it. From Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street, comes another mind-bending and cleverly crafted tale about the stories that shape us, and how easily they can escape us.

Looking glass sound by catriona ward