Sun Damage

Critics Review

• Secrets and tensions rise along with the temperature until they reach boiling point

  Red

• Another masterful trouble-in-paradise book from Sabine Durrant, whose sharp observations strip bare the darkness we all try to hide. The suspense sizzles off every page

  Erin kelly

• Plenty of Ripleyish peril to keep the nerves on edge

  Clare Chambers

• Sun-soaked brilliance

  Sarah Hilary

• Absorbing, intriguing, with great twists and pace, SUN DAMAGE is a wonderful rollercoaster of a read

  B.A. Paris

• Gripping . . . Full of twists, secrets and tension

  My Weekly

• Pacy and intriguing, this has a sizzling tension all the way through

  Fabulous

• A masterclass of slow-burning psychological suspense, packed with intrigue and full of the most delightfully unreliable narrators one could ever wish to meet . . . It is an intricately woven book of many layers, in which Durrant ponders questions around the nature of guilt, culpability and coercive control, all wrapped up in a wonderfully addictive story. It should come with a warning, since believe me, once you start, you’ll resent everyone and anything that drags you away from reading it

  Perspective Magazine

• Sun Damage is gloriously teasing, and is just about the most exciting and obsessively readable book to have passed through my fingers for eons . . . an absolute roller coaster of a book, where every page holds a shock, a surprise or a horror

  On Magazine

• One of our best thriller writers returns with a multi-layered novel that keeps readers on the back foot throughout

  Good Housekeeping

• Dream-holiday-nightmare . . . will make queuing at the airport feel much quicker

  Sunday Times Crime Club

• Tangled’n’twisty

  Peterborough Telegraph

• Written with Durrant’s usual acuity, Sun Damage is an attractive two-for-one deal: smart observation of family life and Brits abroad in the middle, bookended by a Highsmithian thriller

  The Sunday Times

• An exploration of vulnerability, trickery and cruel dishonesty

  Literary Review

• The premise is so interested and the characters so divisive that you’ll want to keep reading

  Belfast Telegraph

• A sizzling thriller

  Bella

• Escapist thriller

  HELLO Magazine

• Essential holiday reading material

  Closer

• Claustrophobic and suspenseful, with an engaging narrator and a satisfying twist: perfect poolside reading

  The Guardian

• A brilliant read with twists and turns up to the last page

  Yours

• A merciless portrayal of privileged English abroad leavens a tense and fiendish thriller. Yikes!

  Saga, Book of the Month

• Ideal for a sun lounger at home or abroad

  The Times, Audiobook of the Week

• Durrant is relentless with the suspense . . . superbly controlled, a novel that’s obsidian dark under the blazing French sun

  Sunday Independent