Book Review: Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield

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Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield is a 2022 debut novel, partly cosmic horror and partly a book about grief. In one timeline, Leah, a deep sea researcher, is trapped under the ocean in a submarine for months in a bizarre accident, increasingly suspicious that she and her team were set up. In the other, Miri, Leah's wife, struggles to understand Leah's strange behavior after her return, while navigating bizarre interactions with Leah's employers - and, at the same time, to mask her own resentment over a delay she was repeatedly told was routine and intentional. But it becomes increasingly clear that Leah may have returned without being saved.

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