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Av: Julia Armfield
Berättare: Hannah Van Der Westhuysen
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'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.

A Book of the Year in the Guardian and Dazed

‘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

‘Every page guillotines you with its wisdom’ TOM BENN

Longlisted for the 2024 Climate Fiction Prize

©2024 Julia Armfield (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers
Belletristik Literatur & Belletristik Psychologie

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'A page-turner that makes you slow down to appreciate the brilliance of the prose. One of my favourite novels of the past few years’ Jeff VanderMeer, author of Absolution

'An extraordinary, unsettling novel about a world where it never stops raining. Three sisters battle the elements – and indeed each other. I guarantee you will never forget this book once you’ve read it' Jacqueline Wilson, author of Think Again

'Evocative yet grounded, blending the mythical with the cavalier… Her imagination is vivid’ Observer

‘Armfield writes so gracefully. I love her glancing, pitiless social observations’ The Times

‘Seductive…compelling…brilliantly audacious’ Guardian

‘Intriguing and provocative… A writer worth reading’ Financial Times

‘Characteristically eerie and emotive' GQ

'An evocative mystery set at the end of the world' Guardian

‘A hauntingly good book about family, faith and the climate crisis’ iNews

‘The emotional depth and unique storytelling ensures Armfield's reputation as a distinctive voice … a must-read for fans of her hauntingly beautiful prose’ Glamour

'Armfield lends a quasi-mythic dimension to an intimate story of sibling rivalry and familial disinheritance’ Daily Mail

‘A sharply observed exploration of grief, family and the end of the world as we know it’ Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller

‘A book of extraordinary sentences, set in end-times which feel bleakly real yet pulse with a tireless, tangible force of love’ Megan Hunter, author of The End We Start From

‘Witty, brutal … An era-defining writer’ Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time

'Washed through with a pervasive sense of unease, resonant with emotional intelligence, and all in elegant, evocative prose' Claire Fuller, author of Unburied Ground

‘Lyrical, haunting, unsettling, and J.G. Ballard-ian in apocalyptic scope … Deeply, passionately, messily human’ Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World

‘Beauty aches through every word’ Heather Parry, author of Orpheus Builds a Girl

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I love this narrator’s voice, fantastic delivery. The story is a fantastic combination of hilarious and grim.

Second amazing book by this author

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