The author delves into Our Wives Under The Sea – a queer gothic fairytale set in the darkest depths of the ocean
Julia ArmfieldBut, as readers will quickly discover, Armfield’s portrayal of marital life gone askew after a disastrous deep-sea mission is as fluid in its genre as the ocean itself.
Katie Tobin: One of the key themes throughout the novel is faith, or the lack of it. From Miri’s Catholicism, Matteo and Leah’s atheism, to Jelka’s constant praying. What is your relationship to faith, and how did this shape the novel? JA: I was always going to write a queer novel as I am a queer woman; I was writing what I knew. I’m interested in the circles of expected existence that people move through in traditional heterosexuality that we don’t move through, necessarily, as queer people. That obviously doesn’t mean you can’t get married, and you can have children, but everything is thrown off its normal whack as you don’t have these traditional spheres to move through in quite the same way.
JA: I’ve always been interested in the water. I have about ten preoccupations I keep coming back to over and over again. The end of my short story collection is very much inspired by the ocean. But I’ve always been fascinated by the fact that we think of the place we live as the real world, but so much more that exists under the water.
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