Julia Armfield’s second novel, Our Wives Under the Sea, is a love story— an intimate, evolving love between two women and an awe-struck love for the ocean— tangled up in the sheets with a horror narrative about a submarine dive gone wrong. Our Wives Under the Sea is about the random details that become love stories, the ocean haunting us from within and without, the anxiety of losing a partner, the terror of finding them again, but different, and the pain of evolution.

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