In an interview with Sam Manzella of Them, Armfield said that the novel was in part inspired by a wish to explore the "crossover with queer women’s fiction and the sea," adding that the ocean is often used to symbolise both "something forbidden" and something that "can be many things at once." In an interview with Sam Franzini of Our Culture Mag, she stated that the novel was in part "about an anticipation of grief and losing someone," adding that part of the horror was from "the clanging bureaucracy of not being able to get an answer." Reception The novel tells the story of Miri, a grant writer, whose wife Leah has returned from a deep-sea research expedition that was marked by catastrophic failure and who is undergoing a physical metamorphosis as a result.Īida Edemariam noted themes of "transformation and return" in the novel, calling it "a kind of Orpheus story." Kirkus Reviews described one of the main questions of the novel as "What happens to a marriage when one spouse is no longer the person you married?" Our Wives Under the Sea is a 2022 British horror novel by Julia Armfield.
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