PRIVATE RITES

Brilliantly audacious GUARDIAN Stunning DAZED Her prose sparkles ELIZA CLARK Hauntingly good iNEWS A must read GLAMOURFrom 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 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