Private Rites
Harper Collins Publ. UK
'Brilliantly audacious'GUARDIAN'Stunning'DAZED'Her prose sparkles' ELIZA CLARK'Hauntingly good'iNEWS'A must read'GLAMOUR'One of my favourite novels' JEFF VANDERMEERFrom 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 floodedIt'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...
