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All Fours

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025

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All Fours

By: Miranda July
Narrated by: Miranda July
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS PICK
A BEST SUMMER READING PICK FOR THE TIMES, DAILY MAIL, FINANCIAL TIMES AND GUARDIAN
A 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR BBC R4 OPEN BOOK, THE OBSERVER, THE GUARDIAN, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, GQ, GRAZIA, HERO, i-D, NYLON, VULTURE, READINGS AND KIRKUS REVIEWS

A semi-famous artist turns forty-five and gives herself a gift – a cross-country road trip from LA to New York, without her husband and child. But thirty minutes after setting off, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel – and embarks on the journey of a lifetime.

 Coming of Age Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Heartfelt Mind-Bending Inspiring Entertainment

Critic Reviews

"It’s very funny, quite dirty, and deeply profound, with a fragile magic that comes from entering an uncensored inner world. There is the added thrill as well, of July suggesting that midlife, and menopause in particular, might be kind of . . . hot"
"Rage, grief, lust, sadness, selfishness; this stunning book and July’s nameless heroine have it all. I cannot wait to read it all over again" (GILLIAN ANDERSON)
"A life-changer for me. I thought I was reading about middle age, then I thought I was reading about menopause, then motherhood, then sexuality, then monogamy, then marriage. And by the final page I realised I was reading about existence and death and I couldn’t stop crying. Plus it’s so funny and it’s so horny. My favourite novel of this year" (DOLLY ALDERTON)
"A giddy, bold, mind-blowing tour de force by one of our most important literary writers. Funny, honest, rich with the energy of the mind, All Fours will jump-start your relation to language and cause you to think anew about the nature of desire" (GEORGE SAUNDERS)
"Transcendent . . . A book that emboldens you. To read it, is to feel gloriously, unashamedly alive" (PANDORA SYKES)
"One of the freshest, funniest, most urgent voices I've read in a long time . . . Authentic and willingly honest. I couldn't put the book down. What a delight" (HUGH JACKMAN)
"Wild and outrageous, provocative and entirely unpredictable" (DAVID NICHOLLS)
"Essential . . . A book of vast scope, taking in men and women, the mind and the body, and society and solitude"
"July doesn’t just tap into the zeitgeist; she helps shape it. Her prose is startlingly original yet immediately familiar, like meeting a stranger who reminds you of yourself. How did she create something so original and yet so relatable? . . . Unflinching and insistent - a defiance against erasure" (MOLLY RINGWALD)
"July comes into her own [and] brings a new perspective . . . A menopause novel that’s never boring"
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I am so glad this book exists! Its honesty is so refreshing I want to hug Miranda for having the guts to strip away all the layers we hide behind. An amazing book!

So honest and original

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Whilst there were a number of quotes and series of dialogue about perimenopause and menopause that really struck me, this is a woman completely unhinged.

Fully whackadoodle

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Someone recommended this book to me when we were talking about perimenopause and it’s exactly the book that I needed. It is rare for me to find any media that not only reflects how I feel in regard to my experiences of the world as a woman but also deeply mirrors my experiences and feelings as a queer woman. There were parts of this book that had me howling in grief, rage and recognition which was deeply cathartic but also the book is beautifully poetic and powerful in a way that feels true to some of my experiences of life (except for the fact that the middle aged character in this book has career success and money, neither of which I have, haha). This is a beautiful, honest and queer book and I am deeply grateful to have read it.

Beautiful and deeply relatable.

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It took me a chapter to get used to the author’s flat sounding voice, but surprisingly, I soon grew quite fond of it. Well worth a read.

Thought provoking - in a good way.

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Miranda July has written something so moving and human and exceptional with All Fours that I feel a little bereft reaching the end.
As a woman of a similar age, it’s refreshing to read a tale about the midpoint of a woman’s life that is positive and uncertain yet hopeful.
I couldn’t put it down.

A profoundly different take on aging as a woman

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