Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield
Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield
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Our Wives Under the Sea

Author: Julia Armfield

Narrator: Annabel Baldwin, Robyn Holdaway

Unabridged: 6 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/12/2022


Synopsis

Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that the woman she loves is slipping from her grasp.

About Julia Armfield

Julia Armfield is the author of the story collection salt slow and the novel Our Wives Under the Sea. Her work has been published in Granta, Lighthouse, Analog Magazine, Neon Magazine, and Best British Short Stories. She is the winner of the White Review Short Story Prize and a Pushcart Prize, and she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award in 2019. She lives and works in London.

About Annabel Baldwin

Annabel Baldwin is an actor and theater maker who trained at ArtsEd. She appeared in the original company of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as Moaning Myrtle.

About Robyn Holdaway

Robyn Holdaway is a nonbinary actor with a passion for creating diverse and engaging work that explores the boundaries of the human condition. A GSA graduate, they were a finalist for the prestigious Alan Bates Award in their final year. Their credits include Casualty and Doctors for the BBC, Antic Disposition's Macbeth, King Lear, and Lord of the Flies, and commercials for Tesco and Orange.


Reviews

Goodreads review by luce (cry bebè's back from hiatus) on December 03, 2021

| | blog | tumblr | ko-fi | | 2 ½ damp stars (rounded up because i really really really wanted to love this) “The deep sea is a haunted house: a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in the darkness.” The cover, title, premise, and early hype around this novel made me think that I......more

Goodreads review by Cindy on January 01, 2023

I loved reading this book. I read this during my commutes and was absolutely absorbed from the beginning, which is a rare but great experience. This will have a niche audience for sure - it’s very slow and filled with long paragraphs, so it’s not for everyone, but it really hit for me and I was imme......more

Goodreads review by emma on June 18, 2024

sapphic literary horror with a gorgeous cover...i like all of these words. and the point of this book is: the ocean is scary! i find all of the great unknowns frightening: the deep sea. space. the figurative one. my own self. in fact, they're a lot scarier than anything else. all of the most wicked an......more

Goodreads review by Lala on July 13, 2022

This was a beautiful, exquisitely slow and odd little story. I'm excited for this to find its niche audience, but weary of it inevitably becoming referred to as "overhyped" once it does.......more

Goodreads review by Alice on January 10, 2024

Devastatingly sad! Thanks!......more