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PRIVATE RITES

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'Brilliantly audacious' GUARDIAN

'Stunning' DAZED

'Her prose ... Read more ELIZA CLARK

‘Hauntingly good’ iNEWS

’A must read’ GLAMOUR

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.

‘Armfield writes so gracefully’ THE TIMES

‘Evocative yet grounded’ OBSERVER

‘A chilling vision of a future capital that I’ve found impossible to shake’ INEWS

‘Ballard-ian in apocalyptic scope … Deeply, passionately, messily human’ PAUL TREMBLAY

‘A signature cocktail of deadpan wit and staggering beauty’ ALICE SLATER

‘Brilliant, original … an era-defining writer’ KALIANE BRADLEY

‘Every page guillotines you with its wisdom’ TOM BENN

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
HarperCollins
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780008608040
SKU
9780008608040
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About Julia Armfield
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 ... Read more

Reviews for PRIVATE RITES
'Evocative yet grounded, blending the mythical with the cavalier… Her imagination is vivid’ Observer ‘Armfield writes so gracefully. I love her glancing, pitiless social observations’ The Times ‘Seductive…compelling…brilliantly audacious’ Guardian ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for PRIVATE RITES


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