Download waves under the sea7/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Armfield’s first book was a collection of stories called Salt Slow and in it - especially in my favorite story, “Mantis” - her sentences are immaculate. Scream? Because that’s how I felt reading the opening line of Our Wives Under The Sea and, if I’m being honest, how I felt reading most of Our Wives Under The Sea. In response to this opening sentence of this novel, I say…what the fuck? Do you ever read a sentence and just want to either 1. So begins Our Wives Under The Sea, Julia Armfield’s debut novel about two wives - one who went on a deep-sea submarine mission and came back wrong and one who grapples with the slowburn wreckage of her return. “The deep sea is a haunted house: a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in the darkness.” ![]() I don’t often do spoiler warnings for novels, but I know some people tend to care about these things more when it comes to anything even remotely of the horror realm, so: This Our Wives Under The Sea review contains some spoilers. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now. ![]()
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