The Rapture - Signed, Lined and Dated'A remarkable story, remarkably told I loved it. Claire McGlasson is a brave and brilliant new voice in fiction.' Jess Kidd, author of Himself and The Hoarder Welcome to the Panacea Society, a terribly English cult Dilys is a devoted member of The Panacea Society, populated almost entirely by virtuous single ladies. When she strikes up a friendship with Grace, a new recruit, God finally seems to be smiling upon her. The friends become closer as they

a penniless artist

wonderful and truly novelistic of things: she has seen right through Mrs March and into the shameful

full of narrative irony

which for years they've managed to keep - even from each other

and as they pursue their quest

She knows her great uncle disappeared in mysterious circumstances in the Arctic but she doesn't know why or how

SPECTRE is a merciless new enemy � a group of the world�s toughest criminals

And Jo is horrified

his father recently deceased

or celebrating New Year's Eve with Yasser Arafat

a local suicide spot

otherworldly race