Julia Armfield

Dec 20, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Julia Armfield

In a world where rain has completely changed the landscape, the people respond with a series of rituals and religious practices that evoke beliefs formerly tossed to the wayside. In PRIVATE RITES, the very talented Julia Armfield (her debut, OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA, is one of the best novels written in the last two decades and is destined to be a classic) gives us her version of King Lear and his daughters.

Dec 3, 2024 | reactormag.com | Julia Armfield

We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Private Rites by Julia Armfield, a speculative reimagining of King Lear available now from Flatiron Books. It’s been raining for a long time now, so long that the land has reshaped itself and old rituals and religions are creeping back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene, and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their father, an architect as cruel as he was revered, dies. His death offers an opportunity for the sisters to come together in a new way.

Dec 3, 2024 | lithub.com | Gabrielle Korn |Julia Armfield

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Nov 29, 2024 | nytimes.com | Allegra Goodman |Julia Armfield

PRIVATE RITES, by Julia Armfield"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!/You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout/Till you have drench'd our steeples," Shakespeare's King Lear shouts into the storm after he is spurned by two of his three daughters. Taking his desperate cry as its inspiration, Julia Armfield's captivating novel "Private Rites" imagines a present city resembling London where storms haven't just drenched steeples; they've drowned entire churches.

Jul 15, 2024 | shelf-awareness.com | Julia Armfield

In her first public comments since Indigo Books & Music went private May 31, founder and CEO Heather Reisman said that the company had had "four tough years" because of her "wrong decision" to step back for a while and the Covid epidemic, which together cost Indigo C$280 million (about US$205.2 million).