


It is in this space of creeping horror, of suspense, of bodily peculiarity, where Armfield especially excels.įrom Miri’s perspective, we are introduced to the novel’s central question: Leah’s disappearance under sea, and her inexplicable return six months later. Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield is out now (Pan Macmillan)Īs Armfield deftly puts it, ”The deep sea is a haunted house: a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in the darkness.
