Julia Armfield's work has been published in
Granta, The White Review and Best British
Short Stories 2019 and 2021. In 2019, she
was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young
Writer of the Year award. She was longlisted
for the Deborah Rogers Award 2018, and
won the White Review Short Story Prize 2018
and a Pushcart Prize in 2020. She is the
author of salt slow, a collection of short
stories, which was longlisted for the Polari
Prize 2020 and the Edge Hill Prize 2020. Her
debut novel, Our Wives Under The Sea, was
shortlisted for the Foyles Fiction Book of the
Year Award 2022 and shortlisted for the
Polari Prize 2023. She lives and works in
London.
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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.
