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Private Rites

Private Rites

by Julia Armfield

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Three estranged sisters, Isla, Irene and Agnes, return to the glass house they grew up in when their father, a cruel and revered architect, dies. Rain has fallen for so long in this near-future city that the land has changed and old rituals are creeping back, and a revelation in his will tests the little that holds the sisters together. A speculative retelling of King Lear.

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Julia Armfield

Julia Armfield

Julia Armfield is an English author. She is known for her novels Our Wives Under the Sea (2022) and Private Rites (2024). Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Armfield

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