Julia Armfield
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who wants to see a cover 👀
'There’s no way to bury a body in earth which is flooded
It is a fact consigned to history along with almost everything else'
Revealing the beautiful cover for
@JuliaArmfield
's new novel
#PrivateRites
!
Pre-order your signed copy from
@Waterstones
:
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Not to immediately disappoint new followers but here's my cat in a cornflake box
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i am rereading the secret history - because i am ill, leave me alone - but unfortunately my signed copy operates as a constant reminder of the time when i met her and got so stressed that i randomly lied to her face and told her i was from amsterdam
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here's me with news...
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not pictured, my wife under the table, crouching out of shot because she has bigger hands than me and is capable of holding two normally sized proofs at once
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indie exclusive pb of our wives has sprayed edges doesn't it 😈
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Our Wives Under The Sea is out in paperback today! not to be gross on main but it means so much that people have read this book/enjoyed this book/sent me photos of their pets sitting on this book ❤❤❤
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I remember seeing Bridesmaids in a cinema pretty much exclusively packed with women and I'm hoping Ocean's Eight will be the same, only this time we'll all be wearing statement coats and dating each other
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please - my wives. (can you believe how beautiful this cover is because i absolutely cannot) 🌊
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👀 Hello I wrote a novel - OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA is out March 2022 with
@picadorbooks
and Summer 2022 with
@Flatironbooks
- it is about girls in love and grief and the deep deep places in the sea 👀
🐙 Calling all fans of
#saltslow
by
@JuliaArmfield
! 🌊
We are publishing Julia Armfield's debut novel OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA in March 2022.
Here's the first line..."The deep sea is a haunted house: a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in the darkness."
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american cover is giving studio ghibli movie about some deeply miserable lesbians, i love her 🌧
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The thing about the movie of Casper the Friendly Ghost (1995) is that literally everyone in it is giving the best performance of their whole career for no reason at all
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Here are various different ways in which the cat has attempted to involve herself in quarantine yoga
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paul mescal take it home etc but why on earth is aftersun not up for best director
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I have become hysterical and cannot be expected to work
When I saw the STACKS of
@picadorbooks
titles on
@Drake
’s Insta I nearly spat my water out over my desk 💀
@JuliaArmfield
@Doug_D_Stuart
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Informational post in case anyone needs to pause and breathe in a big texture
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it's my birthday so rosalie found me the discontinued sylvanian family crocodile set which I guess didn't sell on initial release on account of being frightening
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i don't really write personal essays! but this is an essay about a pretty terrible thing which happened to me! i hope you will read it!
(cw: surgery, ed)
‘It is frightening, to be in one sense wholly inextricable from your body and yet not know what's happening inside it.’
Today we are delighted to be publishing ‘Guts’ by
@JuliaArmfield
, an essay on encountering The Thing Inside the Body.
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hey has anything been going on this week. this is lovely! tentacle!
The winner of the Golden Tentacle is… Our Wives Under the Sea by
@JuliaArmfield
. A poignant, Weird horror about lost love. It was described by the judges as ‘equal parts haunting, loving, and horrifying’.
#TheKitschies
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new followers please be advised that our disgusting rat daughter is now two years old. we love her, the hell-childe ❤
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this is nice!!
📚 This by
@JuliaArmfield
is a novel I've been meaning to read for months. So glad I've finally got round to it - it's brilliant
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what kind of queer representation r u actually hoping to see from your army approved family values corporation pretending to be a series of movies. like what kind of queers
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publication day glamour shots featuring my least discerning reader (she cannot read)
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blacked out when giving a speech and apparently announced my holiday plans to the room 😀🥰
Julia Armfield and Jon Ransom win the Polari prizes for LGBTQ+ books | Books | The Guardian
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finished copies of our wives, loose on the overground. finished copies of our wives, in your area.
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beyond lovely to see it's still there even if people will insist on not taking it seriously smh
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Editing a novel is exactly the same as scrolling back through your own tweets in that you're constantly coming up against instances of past you trying to be clever and it's always embarrassing
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our wives was published exactly a year ago, which means that a year ago i got to see everyone i love at once
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ohhhh my god??
Florence posting about
@JuliaArmfield
’s Salt Slow and the story I just *knew* she’d love is my absolute 2020 vibe thanks v much 😭
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My book has a cover! Unfortunately the edges are not actually serrated but isn't it beautiful?
@picadorbooks
really knocked one out of the park
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validated daily by this nerd starting to purr whenever we make eye contact
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our wives is out in paperback in the us today! arguably the best review i ever had was the beautiful washington post piece that referred to me as a sadist and then used the term "fungal terror" - i loved it so, so much 🌊
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sarah waters called our wives odd in the guardian over the weekend, which is kind of amazing
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WITNESS the outrageous glass Tiggy Rosalie commissioned from
@craftyglassldn
as a Christmas present to me ❤
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hello there 🧐🦑🥰
Our Fiction Book of the Year 2022 shortlist features
@JuliaArmfield
@PicadorBooks
@Sheena_Patel_
@RoughTradeBooks
#SelbyWynnSchwartz
@GalleyBeggars
#OttessaMoshfegh
@vintagebooks
#Percivaleverett
@Influxpress
@azemezi
@FaberBooks
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just a wild list of writers to sit alongside, what a mad treat 🥰
Congratulations to the 2023 Polari Book Prize shortlist! ✨
Our Wives Under the Sea –
@JuliaArmfield
All Down Darkness Wide –
@seanehewitt
Here Again Now –
@NzeluWrites
Fire Island –
@jvjparlett
Young Mungo –
@Doug_D_Stuart
The Schoolhouse –
@sophieannaward
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during a recent emergency (I am fine now), at least 4 people asked rosalie whether she was my mother and then swung wildly for the fences when corrected like oh, big sister? housemate? colleague? stylist? swim coach?
having had more encounters with the NHS than i would have liked in the last two months it is really staggering how many healthcare professionals’ response to seeing some lesbians is to desperately try to work out which of us is the mother and which is the daughter
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this week has been exhausting for a number of reasons but i also received some extremely salmon-coloured post so it's hard to write it off entirely 🍑🌸🧁
our wives out in the us on the 12th!
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I want a Macbeth so bloody it needs a splatter zone. I want the theatre to have to issue rain macs to the front three rows. I want Banquo's ghost as an audience plant.
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This is fine 😱
SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED for The Sunday Times/ University of Warwick
@YoungWriterYear
award:
@JuliaArmfield
, Raymond Antrobus,
@yazzarf
and
@kimtsherwood
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you could preorder private rites if you felt like preordering private rites. i'm not going to tell you how to live your life but that is definitely a thing you could do 🤔
PRIVATE RITES by
@JuliaArmfield
is available to preorder at
@Waterstones
🕯️
A searing novel following three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world
'A writer whose next move you wouldn't want to miss' Observer
June
@4thEstateBooks
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off on book tour despite tiggy's best efforts to prevent it
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trying to explain the experience of living with my cat
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it's giving buffy it's giving faith it's giving cowboy tshirt
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It's fine it's just my book came in the post 🐙🦑. Published by
@picadorbooks
next year, by which time maybe I will have stopped screaming.
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soft launching my girlfriend's outfit before she launches it at tonight's our wives launch 💘
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continuing to post as if nothing is happening, our wives is on the washington post list of notable fiction of the year 💫
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completely thrilled that our wives is on the lesbian fiction shortlist for the lammy awards! 🌊🌊🌊
This year’s
#Lammys
finalists in LESBIAN FICTION are:
@mecca_jamilah
&
@LiverightPub
, K-Ming Chang &
@OneWorldLit
,
@monaojedaf
,
@leilamottley
, and
@JuliaArmfield
See the full list here:
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it is simply hysterical to go around claiming that you can't even breathe the word "lesbian" these days when the honest truth is that being a lesbian is more or less all any of us talk about
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Incredibly insignificant in the grand horrible scheme of things but I did finish my novel draft, almost entirely with some idiot sitting on me
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surprise rites in the wild 😌
The perfect early Xmas present from
@4thEstateBooks
! Can't wait to dig into
@JuliaArmfield
's new book
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OH!
The 2020 longlist for the Polari First Book Prize. Congratulations
@Glamrou
@AlisonCookie
@MiIlyAbraham
@AuntieStuds
@maryjean_chan
@NzeluWrites
@JuliaArmfield
@MrsJaneyMac
@MattHaighPoetry
@TomGlitter
@4thEstateBooks
@helensandbag
@picadorbooks
@ChattoBooks
@MyriadEditions
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salt slow is out in italy tomorrow so now feels like as good a time as any to be like wtf look at this cover how great is this cover who gave this cover the right
(illustrator is scott scheidly, new title is mantis...obviously)
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could not be more excited that our wives is the next pick for florence's book club - what a wild thing for a gorgeous day 💘
We’re so excited to announce that our next book pick is
@JuliaArmfield
’s spectacular debut novel, Our Wives Under The Sea! 🌊
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Tl cleanse tiggy thinks being a lesbian is in fact relevant and interesting - or she would think this if she could think
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sometimes the candles go out and she does not believe it
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thrilled to have a brand new story up on
@GrantaMag
- come talk to me if you're into celesbians/doubles/bad cats/terrible holidays
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feels increasingly impossible for people to succeed as a certain kind of author between small advances plus vanishingly rare chances of prize remuneration plus freelance writing work often not paying you on time (👀)
The Sunday Times Short Story Award is in danger of being discontinued, while the Desmond Elliott Prize will be paused next year in a bid to secure funding, organisers say.
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can confirm i spotted exactly 1 special signed tiggy edition of our wives at the gorgeous charing cross road
@Foyles
about an hour ago 👀👀
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Pathetic the extent to which I miss a Pret cappuccino, a Pret salmon sandwich and a Pret goblin
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private rites back cover blurb ty
FOR FANS OF:
-dykes who are awful
-meet-cutes
-family abolition
-doomscrolling climate news
-doomscrolling the Modern House
-the TFL/Uber boat
-RainyMood 10hr loop
-Succession
-Netflix cult documentaries
-Genesis 3:23 by the Mountain Goats
-flying ant day
-the Book of Revelations
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was sent this while we were out and immediately ordered a large drink idk what to say really 😭🌊
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it feels so genuinely special to see salt slow on florence's list of books that inspired dance fever, particularly since it's there alongside some absolute bangers 👑❤🔥
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feeling very fine and chilled abt how much I love this 😭
🌊🐙🌊 Just come ashore at our Charing Cross Road shop:
@picadorbooks
Our Wives Under the Sea by
@JuliaArmfield
, a marine weird romance that'll bewitch you from page one. Grab a signed first edition:
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Busy thinking about my beautiful girlfriend Matt Hooper from the movie Jaws
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salt slow was published a literal year ago, which means that a year ago we went to tooting lido first thing in the morning and a year ago I saw everyone I love in one place 🦑💙
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our wives under the sea is 99p on kindle today in case you have a new kindle/wanted to read it on kindle/just wanted to know what is going on with me 🌊🌊🌊
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Squirmy family portrait feat. finished UK copy and US proof. 🦑
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Rosalie shrieking from the kitchen I HAVE NOT EVEN FINISHED PROCESSING THE WHOLE OF FOLKLORE YET
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hello our wives is on the polari longlist 💫 (also sweet pal
@HeatherParryUK
on the first book longlist yes yes yes)
Introducing the 2023 Polari Book Prize longlist!
Fire Island -
@jvjparlett
(
@GrantaBooks
)
A Working Class Family Ages Badly - Juno Roche (
@dialoguepub
)
Other People Manage -
@ellen_hawley
(
@_SwiftPress
)
All Down Darkness Wide -
@seanehewitt
(
@vintagebooks
)
(1/3)
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When you're observing me, who do you think I'm observing?
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a study in tiggy being places she oughtn't be - figs 1, 2 & 3
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This is a bit insane, but salt slow is in Time as one of their books for October 😱
Here are 15 new books you should read this month, from Ben Lerner's “The Topeka School” to Elizabeth Strout's “Olive, Again”
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an incredible treat to finally see
@ansa_khan
in the flesh and to finally get to hold THIS in my disgusting paws
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yes a month is definitely fine and normal
OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA by
@JuliaArmfield
is publishing in one month today!
Named as book to look out for in 2022 by Guardian, i-D, Autostraddle, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, Stylist and DAZED - and just look at all this praise. . .
Coming 3 March 2022.🌊
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