Private Rites

Praise for Private Rites: ‘It's a book of extraordinary sentences, set in end-times which feel bleakly real yet pulse with a tireless, tangible force of love’ Megan Hunter, author of The End We Start From ‘Delivered with Julia Armfield’s signature cocktail of deadpan wit and staggering beauty… a sharply observed exploration of grief, family and the end of the world as we know it’ Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller ‘A witty, brutal examination of the ways that the bonds of family can be strangulating, or transfigured by the painful pressure of intimacy into something devastatingly, unfairly tender; and one of the most brilliant, original visions of climate crisis Britain I have ever read. Private Rites has the elemental power of a thunderstorm and the thrilling emotional honesty of a first kiss. Julia Armfield is an era-defining writer’ Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time ‘The rain soaked world of Privates Rites is one you'll want to linger in: despite the creeping sense of dread, the characters and relationships Armfield has created are totally compelling. An astonishing ambitious novel that won't let you go.’ Sarvat Hasin, author of The Giant Dark Praise for Our Wives Under the Sea: ‘Deeply romantic and fabulously strange’ Sarah Waters, author of Fingersmith ‘Julia Armfield is one of my favourite writers … A contemporary gothic fairy tale, sublime in its creepiness’ Florence Welch ‘Beautiful, otherworldly, like floating through water with your eyes open’ Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under