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SUMMARY:PRIVATE RITES: Julia Armfield in conversation with Jess White
DESCRIPTION:We’re are thrilled to welcome Julia Armfield back to Manchester for the paperback publication of Private Rites\, an uneasy\, water-logged tale of family\, queer love and faith at the end of the world. Julia will be in conversation with Jess White. \nTickets are £4. Admission is free when purchasing a copy the book. \nAbout the book: \nIt’s been raining for a long time now\, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves. Old places have been lost. Arcane rituals and religions have crept back into practice. \nSisters Isla\, Irene and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their estranged father dies. A famous architect revered for making the new world navigable\, he had long cut himself off from public life. They find themselves uncertain of how to grieve his passing when everything around them seems to be ending anyway. \nAs the sisters come together to clear the grand glass house that is the pinnacle of his legacy\, they begin to sense that the magnetic influence of their father lives on through it. Something sinister seems to be unfolding\, something related to their mother’s long-ago disappearance and the strangers who have always been unusually interested in their 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 imperilled world. \nAbout the author: \nJulia Armfield is a fiction writer\, living in London with her wife and cat. \nHer work has been published in Granta\, The White Review and Best British Short Stories 2019 and 2021. In 2019\, she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award. She was longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Award 2018\, and won the White Review Short Story Prize 2018 and a Pushcart Prize in 2020. She is the author of salt slow\, a collection of short stories\, which was longlisted for the Polari Prize 2020 and the Edge Hill Prize 2020. \nHer debut novel\, Our Wives Under The Sea\, was shortlisted for the Foyles Fiction Book of the Year Award 2022 and won the Polari Prize 2023. Her second novel\, Private Rites\, was longlisted for the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize in 2024. \nTicket sales will end on Thursday 3rd July at 5pm. If you cannot make the event but would like a dedicated copy of a book\, please email events.manchester@blackwell.co.uk or call us on 0161 274 3331. \nOur event format is usually a 45 minute discussion between the author and interviewer\, followed by a chance for audience members to ask questions. There will be the opportunity to get your book signed/dedicated after the event. Events are a brilliant opportunity to discover new books\, meet authors and likeminded readers and learn something new. \nSupport your local bookshop and help us keep the Manchester literary scene vibrant and exciting. You can follow Blackwells on Eventbrite and social media (@BlackwellsMCR) to keep up to date on upcoming events.
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