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2000s: How the ocean reflects our lives, loves and everything in between.
2000s: How the ocean reflects our lives, loves and everything in between.
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.
‘’The deep sea is a haunted house: a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in the darkness. Unstill, is the word Leah uses, tilting her head to the side as if in answer to some sound though the evening is quiet – dry hum of the road outside the window and little to draw the ear besides.’’
This novel is not set anywhere in particular but it is powered by the ocean, the sea and the way we explore and experience it. That world underneath the surface.
There are many sea references in the novel, from Kon-Tiki and the Blood Eagle of the Nordic civilization to St Brendan, a famous Irish saints, the seafarer who battled against monsters and demons. The book itself starts off with a quote from Moby Dick and Jaws.
Destination/Location: the ocean Author: Julia Armfield Departure: 2000s
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