eBook, 327 pages
English language
Published 2024 by Fourth Estate.
It’s been raining for a long time now, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves and the cities have retreated to higher storeys. As old places have disappeared, arcane rituals 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, 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. Soon it becomes clear that others have taken an interest in both his estate and them, and that perhaps their inheritance may not be theirs alone.
I had to keep going just to see how it resolved, and to be honest, WTF was up with the tiny cult reference... I love her other work, I loved somethings about this story, but maybe the story was less interesting than the setting- a future, water logged, climate changed London. Please don't let this be your first Julia Armfield book. Yes, she can be slow, and gloomy grey, but she can write!
