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Private Rites

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Private Rites

Auteur(s): Julia Armfield
Narrateur(s): Hannah van der Westhuysen
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“One of my favorite novels of the past few years.”—Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, centering three sisters navigating queer love and loss in a drowning world

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. In the grand glass house they grew up in, their father’s most famous creation, the sisters sort through the secrets and memories he left behind, until their fragile bond is shattered by a revelation in his will.

The sisters are more estranged than ever, and their lives spin out of control: Irene’s relationship is straining at the seams, Isla’s ex-wife keeps calling, and cynical Agnes is falling in love for the first time. But something even more sinister might be unfolding, something related to their mother’s long-ago disappearance and the strangers who have always seemed unusually interested in the sisters’ 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 imperiled world.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

©2024 Julia Armfield (P)2024 Macmillan Audio
Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Mariage

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A Most Anticipated Book (Goodreads, LitHub, BookRiot, Bookish)

“Inspired by Shakespeare’s King Lear, this characteristically eerie and emotive novel explores faith, legacy, and grief for loved ones and for the world as we know it.”GQ

“[Armfield] is both poet and prophet of the watery and the queer and the channels connecting them…Seductive…Compelling…Brilliantly audacious.”The Guardian

“As an Our Wives Under the Sea evangelist, I was absolutely foaming at the mouth for Private Rites...It’s gay and eerie and vibey and weird...Drink it up, baby!”—LitHub

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Rain, Ruin, & Realism: A Haunting Near-Future Tale

I’ve been looking forward to this novel, and while it doesn’t quite reach the heights of her debut, it’s still an impressively well written work. Set in a near future world slowly succumbing to rising waters, it follows three queer, estranged sisters as they navigate not only their fractured relationships but also the bleak, rain-drenched landscape of their everyday lives. Despite the apocalyptic backdrop with buildings collapsing, infrastructure failing; they still have to go to work, endure mundane jobs, and trudge through the emotional fog that mirrors the weather.

The world-building is truly phenomenal: immersive, eerie, and entirely believable.

The dialogue, too, stands out—natural and nuanced, it captures the awkwardness and tension between the sisters and their partners with startling realism.

That said, the ending felt either too rushed or too understated - something about it just didn’t quite land.

Loved the narration, especially how Irene was voiced.

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