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Private Rites
Private Rites | Julia Armfield
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Julia Armfield is one of my favourite writers Florence Welch A writer whose next move you wouldnt want to miss Observer The bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea returns with a stunning, unsettling novel following three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world.
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Private Rites | Julia Armfield
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This book explores 3 adult sisters as their father has just died, looking at their current, somewhat strained relationships and their childhood. All this in the setting of a cli-fi, climate change impacted world as well as maybe something odd going on. I wish the oddness had been explored a bit more, as I feel it would have helped build tension to the ending, but this was good.

TrishB Still on my pile! 5d
squirrelbrain I preferred this to Our Wives Under the Sea - did you? 5d
Hooked_on_books @squirrelbrain No, I liked the other one better. She built suspense in it so well. Here I thought she did a great job with the characters and their relationships/self-exploration, but the “odd” element wasn‘t well balanced. Really it was just people looking at Agnes and no suspense, so the ending felt to me like a hard turn that didn‘t fit. I wish she had either leaned into the odd more or left it out entirely. 5d
squirrelbrain I see what you mean Holly about this not being weird enough, but I found Wives a bit *too* left-field for me. 4d
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Private Rites | Julia Armfield
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A dystopian climate disaster forces three estranged sisters to deal with the end of the world, society's deterioration, family dynamics, capitalism, greed, self-interest, and their own queerness in this novel inspired by the Shakesperean play King Lear.

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