'Brilliantly audacious' GUARDIAN 'Stunning' DAZED 'Her prose sparkles' ELIZA CLARK 'Hauntingly
good' iNEWS 'A must read' 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's no way to bury a body
in earth which is flooded It's 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's 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. 'Armfield writes so gracefully' THE TIMES 'Evocative yet
grounded' OBSERVER 'A chilling vision of a future capital that I've found impossible to shake'
INEWS 'Ballard-ian in apocalyptic scope ... Deeply passionately messily human' PAUL TREMBLAY
'A signature cocktail of deadpan wit and staggering beauty' ALICE SLATER 'Brilliant original
... an era-defining writer' KALIANE BRADLEY 'Every page guillotines you with its wisdom' TOM
BENN Longlisted for the 2024 Climate Fiction Prize A Book of the Year pick in the Guardian
