5/19/2023 0 Comments Our wives under the sea a novel![]() ![]() ![]() The novel is told in two alternating perspectives and voices: Leah’s, narrating her time in a submarine during a deep-sea research mission that left her and two crewmates trapped at the bottom of the ocean after an unexplained system-failure and her wife Miri’s, as she waits and presumes Leah dead until her impossible return six months later. But, like the sea, it has unknown depths and horrors to which they will sink. The lives of Miri and Leah are as complete and furnished as a house, their minute actions and seemingly mundane memories building a complete structure of their relationship. ‘The deep sea is a haunted house’ is how Julia Armfield’s debut novel Our Wives Under the Sea opens, and the same can be said for the book itself. ![]()
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