![]() ![]() Our Wives Under The Sea is as lyrical and moving as it is frightening and discomforting, and its human core makes its exploration of the Weird all the more powerful. Armfield brings the scares and expertly ratchets up the tension, but at the heart of the novel is the relationship between Miri and Leah, their love for each other and how it perseveres under incredible strain. Our Wives Under The Sea is wonderfully uncanny, drawing on all our fears of the unknown horrors lurking at the bottom of the ocean and visceral body horror, but also on our more mundane fears about the loneliness of the human condition, whether or not we can ever truly know even the people we love. Beautifully written, Armfield’s novel expertly interweaves fairy-tale and horror motifs with a moving and intimate portrayal of loss. The novel tells the story of a woman’s wife who has come back from the sea mysteriously changed. ![]() Julia Armfield’s debut novel Our Wives Under The Sea (2022) is a gorgeous gothic masterpiece. “The deep sea is a haunted house: a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in the darkness.” ![]()
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