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Julia Armfield


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in London, England, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1990

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Julia Armfield was born in London in 1990. She is a fiction writer and occasional playwright with a Masters in Victorian Art and Literature from Royal Holloway University. She was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 2019. She was commended in the Moth Short Story Prize 2017, longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Award 2018, and won the White Review short story prize 2018. Her first book, salt slow, is a collection of short stories about bodies and the bodily, mapping the skin and bones of its characters through their experiences of isolation, obsession and love. She won the Pushcart Prize in 2020. Julia Armfield lives and works in London.

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Average rating: 3.68 · 184,697 ratings · 37,758 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors
Our Wives Under the Sea
3.66 avg rating — 149,004 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions
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Salt Slow
3.92 avg rating — 17,244 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions
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Private Rites
3.56 avg rating — 18,150 ratings — published 2024 — 24 editions
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Up to the Light
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“I used to think there was such a thing as emptiness, that there were places in the world one could go and be alone. This, I think, is still true, but the error in my reasoning was to assume that alone was somewhere you could go, rather than somewhere you had to be left.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
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“I want to explain her in a way that would make you love her, but the problem with this is that loving is something we all do alone and through different sets of eyes.”
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“To know the ocean, I have always felt, is to recognize the teeth it keeps half hidden.”
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