All Fours

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 * * Observer * * Essential . . . A book of vast scope, taking in men and women, the mind and the body, and society and solitude * * Guardian * * July comes into her own [and] brings a new perspective . . . A menopause novel that's never boring * * Sunday Times * * Voyeuristic and exploratory . . . Miranda July compels us with her provocations * * Times Literary Supplement * * A fresh, oestrogen-fuelled take on the midlife crisis, but the prose is smart, sharp and deliciously readable. It's sexy, it's funny, but it's also warm and tender in the best ways * * Prospect Magazine * * A witty, raw tale about freedom and reinvention * * i * * A guidebook to female liberation * * Telegraph * * Savvy introspection and bawdy comedy collide with exhilarating results * * Mail on Sunday * * In All Fours . . . July challenges the binary of marriage and explores sexuality in perimenopause . . . She captures the agony and ecstasy of texting a romantic interest, and of being engulfed by desire * * Financial Times * * Bawdy and frank . . . This is not a novel for the faint-hearted or the easily embarrassed * * Listener * *

Miranda July is a writer, filmmaker and artist. Her most recent book is The First Bad Man, a novel. July's collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in twenty-three countries. Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, Harper's, and the New Yorker; It Chooses You was her first book of non-fiction. She wrote, directed and starred in The Future and Me and You and Everyone We Know, which won the Camra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize at Sundance. In 2020 she debuted her third feature film, Kajillionaire. July lives in Los Angeles. @mirandajuly | mirandajuly.com