sophiebec 's review for:

Private Rites by Julia Armfield

4.5

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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This book dives into a climate changed world that is constantly flooded and rainy. It explores how relationships strain and deepen in the end times, how people go on as though nothing has changed (for this time is all they know) and how life simply cannot go on as normal in some ways. We tend to imagine an ‘end time’ where humans cease to exist, but what about the time leading up to that, how do we survive let alone live in those times?