Our Wives Under The Sea

Winner of the Polari Prize, a hypnotic, otherworldly love story

De: Julia Armfield

Narrado por: Annabel Baldwin, Robyn Holdaway

Named as a book to look out for 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 realize that the life that they had might be gone.

'Part bruisingly tender love story, part nerve-clanging submarine thriller . . . heart-slicing, cinematic.' - The Times

Reseñas de la Crítica

This haunting novel is beautifully written and artfully narrated by Annabel Baldwin and Robyn Holdaway...Thanks to fine performances, Leah's diary entries, Miri's flashbacks, and the unimaginable mystery of the deep ocean all seem real. Listeners won't want to miss this genre-bending love story. <b>Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award 2022</b>

Julia Armfield is one of my favourite writers, <i>Our Wives Under The Sea</i> moves fluidly between horror story and love story, the gorgeous and the grotesque. <b>A contemporary gothic fairy tale, sublime in its creepiness</b>. (Florence Welch)

<b>Julia Armfield’s weird and wonderful debut feels fresh</b> (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)

Frightening, otherworldly, but <b>above all gripping.</b>

Sharp, atmospheric, dryly funny, sad, distinctive . . . There is an almost spiritual endlessness to its quest. <b>Like all good novels, it goes deep and then deeper again.</b>

<i>Our Wives Under The Sea</i> is a <b>hypnotic and affecting love story</b> - an exploration of intimacy and its opposites, as well as of incomprehension, absence and unfathomable uncertainty.

As in her stories,<b> Armfield is extremely good at anatomising the women’s relationship</b>: the self-defensive blindnesses, the resentments and rituals and angers, grief for vanished joys – all the small moments of which lasting love consists. There are clever lines, everywhere, and wry, funny ones.

<b>Part bruisingly tender love story, part nerve-clanging submarine thriller. </b>Creative innovation is there if you’re looking for it — and to anyone lamenting its loss: order a copy . . . There is such tenderness in the precision of these observations of long-term love and such eerie estrangement when the uncanny intrudes. Eventually, the two moods fuse at the novel’s heart-slicing, cinematic climax. <b>I’ll be thinking about it for ages</b> — and checking the bathtub for grit.

If you're in the mood to cry, then Julia Armfield wrote the perfect book for ya . . . <b>Armfield breaks your heart over and over (but in a good way, promise)</b>.

Julia Armfield’s haunting debut novel deftly weaves a love story into creeping horror. . .<b><i>Our Wives Under The Sea</i> is a quiet triumph</b>, but beware – this unsettling, saltwater-soaked story seeps deeper than you think.

<b>A strange, unnerving novel that wrongfoots you at every turn and invites you to think again about loss, absence, and transformation</b>, <i>Our Wives Under The Sea</i> also returns wholly original answers to that great question, 'Where did we come from, where are we going?' It is a beautiful, lyrically written elegy.

Loved it

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

Slow and creeping

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