“‘Brilliantly audacious’ GUARDIAN ‘Stunning’ DAZED ‘Her prose sparkles’ ELIZA CLARK \u2018Hauntingly good\u2019 iNEWS \u2019A must read\u2019 GLAMOUR ‘One of my favourite novels’ JEFF VANDERMEER From the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting, heart wrenching novel of three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world. There\u2019s no way to bury a body in earth which is flooded It\u2019s been raining for a long time now, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves. Old places have been lost. Arcane rituals and religions have crept back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their estranged father dies. A famous architect revered for making the new world navigable, he had long cut himself off from public life. They find themselves uncertain of how to grieve his passing when everything around them seems to be ending anyway. As the sisters come together to clear the grand glass house that is the pinnacle of his legacy, they begin to sense that the magnetic influence of their father lives on through it. Something sinister seems to be unfolding, something related to their mother\u2019s long-ago disappearance and the strangers who have always been unusually interested in their lives. Soon, it becomes clear that the sisters have been chosen for a very particular purpose, one with shattering implications for their family and their imperilled world. \u2018Armfield writes so gracefully\u2019 THE TIMES \u2018Evocative yet grounded\u2019 OBSERVER \u2018A chilling vision of a future capital that I\u2019ve found impossible to shake\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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