Our Wives Under the Sea
Love doesn’t always save, sometimes it haunts.
Julia Armfield
Leah, a marine researcher, disappears in a deep-sea dive gone wrong. Months later, she returns, but she’s not the same. Her wife, Miri, tries to piece her back together, watching the person she loves become something unrecognizable, something ocean-touched and quietly terrifying. It’s not a monster story. It’s a grief story wearing a sea-soaked horror cloak.
Aug 22, 2025
Story behind the story
Julia plays with genre like watercolor, blurring boundaries between romance, loss, and gentle terror. This novel feels like watching someone love a ghost who’s still breathing. It’s intimate, eerie, and written like a slow wave: returning again and again until it breaks.
Creative journey
She writes in quiet beats and sensory detail, saltwater, skin, silence. There’s science, yes, but also myth. The ocean becomes a metaphor for the unknowable parts of those we love, and the unknowable parts of ourselves.
About the Julia
Julia Armfield writes like she’s peeling back layers of ordinary life and finding myth just beneath the surface. With a background in Greek tragedy and gothic literature, she blends tenderness and unease in a way that feels haunting, slow-burn, and strangely intimate. She’s one of those authors who observes emotions like they’re living organisms under glass, and then hands you the microscope.
What readers will take away
You walk away wondering how well we ever really know each other, and what we owe someone when they’re changing, slipping, or drifting somewhere we cannot follow.
Looking ahead
Armfield continues blending literary depth with speculative strangeness. If you like fiction that whispers instead of shouts, she’s one to follow.
Fun personal touch
Julia loves folklore and sea myths, it shows. She treats oceans like ancient libraries with stories we’ve barely started reading.
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