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Our Wives Under the Sea

By: Julia Armfield
Narrated by: Annabel Baldwin, Robyn Holdaway
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Named as a book to look out for in 2022 by Guardian, i-D, Autostraddle, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, Stylist and DAZED.

Our Wives Under the Sea is the debut novel from the critically acclaimed author of salt slow. It’s a story of falling in love, loss, grief and what life there is in the deep, deep sea.

Miri thinks she has got her wife back when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home.

To have the woman she loves back should mean a return to normal life, but Miri can feel Leah slipping from her grasp. Memories of what they had before—the jokes they shared, the films they watched, all the small things that made Leah hers—only remind Miri of what she stands to lose. Living in the same space but suddenly separate, Miri comes to realise that the life that they had might be gone.

©2022 Julia Armfield (P)2022 Macmillan Publishers International Limited
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  • Categories: LGBTQ+
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Julia Armfield is one of my favourite writers, Our Wives Under The Sea moves fluidly between horror story and love story, the gorgeous and the grotesque. A contemporary gothic fairy tale, sublime in its creepiness. (Florence Welch)
Julia Armfield’s weird and wonderful debut feels fresh (or rather, salty) . . . You hear a lot of people lamenting the death of innovation in contemporary fiction . . . and Armfield is a brilliant counterpoint. (Susie Goldsbrough and Robbie Millen)
A wonderful novel, deeply romantic and fabulously strange. I loved this book. (Sarah Waters)

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A most read If you like beautifully written books. Its so atmospheric and really sucks you in, finished it in two days. Still thinking about it and the ending

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Slow and creeping

Great for fans of the Within the Wires series. Very character focused with an unpleasant creepy atmosphere. Good narration

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