Three Keys in the Dream of G

Shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize 2018 In peace-agreement Ulster a mother rears her two daughters, as her husband is decommissioned from his violent paramilitary past. In Florida a septuagenarian runs a community refuge for women and the authorities have surrounded it as a threat to national security. In laboratories all over the world the human genome is being dissected and decoded. In Three Dreams in the Key of G three female voices, Mother, Crone and Creatrix, unknowingly influence each other s fates as each battles to assert themselves and discover their voices in hostile environments.