Julia Armfield

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.

"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.

Our Wives Under The Sea

This collection of short stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bodily, mapping the skin and bones of its characters through their experiences of isolation, obsession and love. Throughout the collection, women become insects, men turn to stone, a city becomes insomniac and bodies are picked apart to make up better ones. The mundane worlds of schools and sea side towns are invaded and transformed, creating a landscape which is constantly shifting to hold on to the bodies of its inhabitants. Blending the mythic and the gothic, the collection considers characters in motion - turning away, turning back or simply turning into something new.

From Julia Armfield, the winner of The White Review Short Story Prize 2018, salt slow is an extraordinary collection of short stories that are sure to dazzle and shock.

salt slow

‘Julia Armfield is one of my favourite writers’ Florence Welch ‘A writer whose next move you wouldn’t want to miss’ Observer The bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea returns with a stunning, unsettling novel following three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world.

Private Rites

Miri y Leah son jóvenes y están enamoradas y tienen un matrimonio lleno de felices complicidades. Hasta que Leah, bióloga marina de profesión, se embarca hacia el misterioso fondo del mar en una expedición que debía durar solo tres semanas pero que se extiende por varios meses. Cuando Leah por fin regresa a la superficie y a su casa, Miri se da cuenta de que recuperar a la mujer que ama no significa recuperar la vida que compartían. Leah no está bien: come apenas, anda perdida en sus pensamientos y por la noche deja correr el agua de los grifos del baño. Algo de lo que vivió en el abismo está ahora con ellas, en esa casa, transformando a Leah de un modo aterrador y separándola de Miri quizás irremediablemente. Con un dominio magistral del suspenso y una sensibilidad exquisita para la ternura, Julia Armfield entrelaza géneros que parecen opuestos –la novela de terror y la romántica– para contar la historia entera de una intimidad compartida. Nuestras esposas bajo el mar, el debut novelístico de esta gran y jovencísima narradora inglesa, es un viaje conmovedor hacia las profundidades del océano y de una relación amorosa.

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