23 June 2025 [6:30-8:00 PM]
In the Shop, 54 Fore Street, Bovey Tracey TQ13 9AE
Join us in the bookshop for an evening with the brilliant Julia Armfield to celebrate the paperback release of her chilling sisterly drama, Private Rites. We will explore this latest book, longlisted for the 2024 Climate Fiction Prize, as well as her other works and her life as a writer.
If you’re already a fan of Julia’s writing, you know that she writes evocative, slightly unsettling, deeply human stories that leave your head spinning and heart aching. Our Wives Under the Sea is one of this bookshop’s favourite books ever!
Come enjoy this conversation, ask your questions of Julia and pick up a signed copy or two of her books. This is a free, but ticketed event. Please reserve your seat early to avoid disappointment.
About Julia
Julia Armfield is a fiction writer, living in London with her wife and cat. Her 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. Her 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.