'Part bruisingly tender love story, part nerve-clanging submarine thriller. Living in the same space but suddenly separate, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had might be gone. 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. To have the woman she loves back should mean a return to normal life, but Miri can feel Leah slipping from her grasp. 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. Our Wives Under the Sea is a contemporary gothic fairy. Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters and Everything Under Julia Armfield is one of my favorite writers. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. Jami Attenberg, author of I Came All This Way to Meet You and The Middlesteins Beautiful, otherworldly, like floating through water with your eyes open. Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It’s a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep, deep sea. Shortlisted for the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize, Our Wives Under The Sea is the haunting debut novel from Julia Armfiled, the critically acclaimed author of S alt Slow. ‘A gothic fairy tale, sublime in its creepiness’ - Florence Welch
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