(I had a boyfriend who used to travel to Japan for long periods with work.
Except of course when people return from places, they are often not the same person they were before. Leah was missing, until she wasn’t, until she was back on dry land, back to Miri and their shared flat, their shared life. Her wife Miri had begun to grapple with the space left by her absence, the way the absence of a lost loved one can be almost as much of a physical entity as their presence previously had been.
Leah had been missing, deep beneath the sea, on a submarine mission gone wrong. In her captivating novel, Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield tenderly and credibly depicts the pain of absence, loss and transformation often experienced in romantic relationships.
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