Description: A Best Book of the Year (NPR, The Washington Post , Lit Hub, The Telegraph , Goodreads, Tor.com, them, and more) A Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Lesbian Fiction A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist A Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Longlistee "Shocking...Achingly poetic... Sharp and beautiful as coral polyps ...Armfield exercises an exquisite--even sadistic--sense of suspense. She''s cleverly designed this story so that we only gradually become aware of how little we know. ''Panic is a misuse of oxygen,'' Leah warns, but by the climax of this eerie novel, I was misusing it with abandon." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post "A deeply strange and haunting novel in the best possible way... An impressive and exciting debut novel that may leave you thinking about your own relationships in a new light." --NPR " A haunting, evocative novel that juxtaposes the horrors beneath the waves with the life and love that exist on land." -- TIME "Armfield uses this mysterious setup to explore anticipatory grief and the limits of human understanding, and I was a little changed after reading Our Wives Under the Sea , too." -- The New York Times "Sublimely gorgeous...Readers are treated to a stunning love story about a couple trying to make sense of their new unfamiliar situation, while also learning about what happened to Leah on the ocean floor. It''s pretty much perfect ." --Liberty Hardy, BookRiot "Hypnotic...Gripped me from the first chapter...Armfield is unafraid to deal with uncomfortable issues, asking readers how much it''s possible to ever really know someone, no matter how long you''ve been with them. I savored each delicious sentence of Our Wives Under the Sea , underlining passages on almost every page, and genuinely missed the characters when it ended." --BuzzFeed "Armfield has written a novel so chock-full of stunning sentences that that urge to scream needled its way into me throughout my first and second reads of the book...Iith the life and love that exist on land." -- TIME "Armfield uses this mysterious setup to explore anticipatory grief and the limits of human understanding, and I was a little changed after reading Our Wives Under the Sea , too." -- The New York Times "Sublimely gorgeous...Readers are treated to a stunning love story about a couple trying to make sense of their new unfamiliar situation, while also learning about what happened to Leah on the ocean floor. It''s pretty much perfect ." --Liberty Hardy, BookRiot "Hypnotic...Gripped me from the first chapter...Armfield is unafraid to deal with uncomfortable issues, asking readers how much it''s possible to ever really know someone, no matter how long you''ve been with them. I savored each delicious sentence of Our Wives Under the Sea , underlining passages on almost every page, and genuinely missed the characters when it ended." --BuzzFeed "Armfield has written a novel so chock-full of stunning sentences that that urge to scream needled its way into me throughout my first and second reads of the book...Ill of stunning sentences that that urge to scream needled its way into me throughout my first and second reads of the book...It isn''t an obvious monster novel, but I consider it a monster novel in its own way. A deeply queer one, a deeply romantic one." -- Autostraddle " Original and haunting ." -- People Magazine (Best New Books) "If you''re in the mood to cry, then Julia Armfield wrote the perfect book for ya... Armfield breaks your heart over and over (but in a good way, promise)." -- Cosmopolitan " A love story like no other ...Armfield''s fantastic first novel is about the pockets of unknowability that pop up in even the longest intimacies, how marriage, like the ocean, is full of ''the teeth it keeps half-hidden.''" --Electric Literature "Eerie and wonderful...A tender love story...A strange, sad, funny, ethereal book. Its final act is achingly beautiful and utterly terrifying. I still don''t quite know what to make of Our Wives Under the Sea , but I can''t stop thinking about it ." --Lit Hub "Armfield''s gorgeous prose weaves a strangely romantic tale of love and loss that might just leave you viewing your own relationships differently." --them " One of my favorites of this (and any other) year ...Funny, wise, and often devastating." --Tor.com "[Armfield''sith the life and love that exist on land." -- TIME "Armfield uses this mysterious setup to explore anticipatory grief and the limits of human understanding, and I was a little changed after reading Our Wives Under the Sea , too." -- The New York Times "Sublimely gorgeous...Readers are treated to a stunning love story about a couple trying to make sense of their new unfamiliar situation, while also learning about what happened to Leah on the ocean floor. It''s pretty much perfect ." --Liberty Hardy, BookRiot "Hypnotic...Gripped me from the first chapter...Armfield is unafraid to deal with uncomfortable issues, asking readers how much it''s possible to ever really know someone, no matter how long you''ve been with them. I savored each delicious sentence of Our Wives Under the Sea , underlining passages on almost every page, and genuinely missed the characters when it ended." --BuzzFeed "Armfield has written a novel so chock-full of stunning sentences that that urge to scream needled its way into me throughout my first and second reads of the book...It isn''t an obvious monster novel, but I consider it a monster novel in its own way. A deeply queer one, a deeply romantic one." -- Autostraddle " Original and haunting ." -- People Magazine (Best New Books) "If you''re in the mood to cry, then Julia Armfield wrote the perfect book for ya... Armfield breaks your heart over and over (but in a good way, promise)." -- Cosmopolitan " A love story like no other ...Armfield''s fantastic first novel is about the pockets of unknowability that pop up in even the longest intimacies, how marriage, like the ocean, is full of ''the teeth it keeps half-hidden.''" --Electric Literature "Eerie and wonderful...A tender love story...A strange, sad, funny, ethereal book. Its final act is achingly beautiful and utterly terrifying. I still don''t quite know what to make of Our Wives Under the Sea , but I can''t stop thinking about it ." --Lit Hub "Armfield''s gorgeous prose weaves a strangely romantic tale of love and loss that might just leave you viewing your own relationships differently." --them " One of my favorites of this (and any other) year ...Funny, wise, and often devastating." --Tor.com "[Armfield''sll of stunning sentences that that urge to scream needled its way into me throughout my first and second reads of the book...It isn''t an obvious monster novel, but I consider it a monster novel in its own way. A deeply queer one, a deeply romantic one." -- Autostraddle " Original and haunting ." -- People Magazine (Best New Books) "If you''re in the mood to cry, then Julia Armfield wrote the perfect book for ya... Armfield breaks your heart over and over (but in a good way, promise)." -- Cosmopolitan " A love story like no other ...Armfield''s fantastic first novel is about the pockets of unknowability that pop up in even the longest intimacies, how marriage, like the ocean, is full of ''the teeth it keeps half-hidden.''" --Electric Literature "Eerie and wonderful...A tender love story...A strange, sad, funny, ethereal book. Its final act is achingly beautiful and utterly terrifying. I still don''t quite know what to make of Our Wives Under the Sea , but I can''t stop thinking about it ." --Lit Hub "Armfield''s gorgeous prose weaves a strangely romantic tale of love and loss that might just leave you viewing your own relationships differently." --them " One of my favorites of this (and any other) year ...Funny, wise, and often devastating." --Tor.com "[Armfield''s Our Wives Under the Sea , but I can''t stop thinking about it ." --Lit Hub "Armfield''s gorgeous prose weaves a strangely romantic tale of love and loss that might just leave you viewing your own relationships differently." --them " One of my favorites of this (and any other) year ...Funny, wise, and often devastating." --Tor.com "[Armfield''s a strangely romantic tale of love and loss that might just leave you viewing your own relationships differently." --them " One of my favorites of this (and any other) year ...Funny, wise, and often devastating." --Tor.com "[Armfield''sith the life and love that exist on land." -- TIME "Armfield uses this mysterious setup to explore anticipatory grief and the limits of human understanding, and I was a little changed after reading Our Wives Under the Sea , too." -- The New York Times

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