Les Fugitives Ltd, 2025, softcover, 256 pages, 18.1 x 12.3 cm
In her final year of university, an undergraduate in psychology reckons with a romantic obsession with a postgraduate in computer science. The story of a first love, unrequited, but not quite, To Rest Our Minds and Bodies confronts thorny gender relations, contradictory desires, consent, and unravelling mental health within Gen Z. Armstrong queries the nature of experience, mapping the disintegration of a young woman’s sense of self and engagement with the physical world in an anti-Bildungsroman that is a most powerful first novel.
