{"product_id":"private-rites-9780008608071","title":"Private Rites","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Julia Armfield\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Brilliantly audacious' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Stunning'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDAZED\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Her prose sparkles'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ELIZA CLARK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Hauntingly good’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eiNEWS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e’A must read’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGLAMOUR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'One of my favourite novels'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e JEFF VANDERMEER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eOur Wives Under the Sea,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e a haunting, heart wrenching novel of three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThere’s no way to bury a body in earth which is flooded\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt’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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSisters 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Armfield writes so gracefully’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Evocative yet grounded’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘A chilling vision of a future capital that I’ve found impossible to shake’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eINEWS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Ballard-ian in apocalyptic scope … Deeply, passionately, messily human’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePAUL TREMBLAY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘A signature cocktail of deadpan wit and staggering beauty’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eALICE SLATER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Brilliant, original … an era-defining writer’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e KALIANE BRADLEY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Every page guillotines you with its wisdom’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTOM BENN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLonglisted for the 2024 Climate Fiction Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA Book of the Year pick in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45847795171479,"sku":"9780008608071","price":877.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780008608071.webp?v=1769297111","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/private-rites-9780008608071","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}