Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
Private Rites
By Julia Armfield
13 Jan, 2026
Talking to the Sun
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Julia Armfield’s 2024 Private Rites is a stand-alone near-future cli-fi novel.
Three loving sisters raised by a doting father in a perfect childhood in world growing ever more perfect… this was not at all the experience of sisters Isla, Irene, and their half-sister Agnes. Their father, architect Stephen Carmichael, was self-centered and cruel. None of the sisters particularly care for each other, the divide between the older two and the youngest being especially deep.
Also, there’s the matter of the slow climate apocalypse in which everyone is living.