![]() ![]() Our Culture chatted with Julia Armfield about her research from the book, the banality we meet with extreme events, and how queer relationships are portrayed. Combining bodily horror with an unnerving sense of realism, Our Wives Under the Sea is one of the most frightening of the year - no jumpscares required. Sections correspond to the ocean’s laters, starting from the benign “Sunlight Zone,” ending with the dark and horrifying “Hadal Zone.”Īs Leah recalls her time stuck at the bottom of the ocean, losing track of time, Miri attempts to find the wife she once knew underneath the literal and metaphorical watery wall an unknown entity has erected in front of Leah. While Miri tries again and again, through repeated calls and online forum visits, to see what has happened with her wife, Leah grows stranger, her symptoms worsening as the book deepens. The book switches between the two characters - Miri, contacting her friends for some relief and being neglected by the enigmatic Centre which Leah’s expedition was a part of - and Leah, recalling her time under the sea surrounded by two crewmembers. She returned from her deep-sea exploration weeks ago, but she’s troubling her wife, Miri, plodding around the apartment seeping water, spending days in the bath, and locking herself in the bathroom. ![]()
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