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Private Rites: The unmissable new 2024 novel from the author of Our Wives Under the Sea

Release date: 5 July 2024
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Stunning'DAZED

'Her prose sparkles' 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 is a fact consigned to history along with almost everything else

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

Product Details

Title: Private Rites: The unmissable new 2024 novel from the author of Our Wives Under the Sea
Author: Julia Armfield
Publisher: Fourth Estate
SKU: BK0508776
EAN: 9780008608040
Number Of Pages: 208
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Release date: 5 July 2024

About Author

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 the author of salt slow, a collection of short stories, which was longlisted for the Polari Prize 2020 and the Edge Hill Prize 2020. Her debut novel, Our Wives Under The Sea, was shortlisted for the Foyles Fiction Book of the Year Award 2022 and shortlisted for the Polari Prize 2023. She lives and works in London.

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