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Our wives under the sea plot5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() It dances from poignant to profound, knowing so well that whatever universal sentiments she wants to express, they can only be found in the particular. Julia Armfield understands the lyricism of simplicity, letting her prose flow naturally from character insight and situation, never overwrought but never anything less than nuanced. Why didn’t anyone realize that this, this was the perfect way to say it? Why hasn’t anyone said it this way before? was my quiet refrain throughout the book. ![]() Pick any page at random and you’ll find a burnt tongue turn of phrase, something unexpected enough to make you pause and so perfectly fitting as to set you off reading again, wanting more. I started writing down quotes from Our Wives Under the Sea by the second page. I don’t record things from every book some novels have great plots or characters without ever really hitting that point where brilliant insight finds perfect expression. Along with my list of books read, I keep a list of particularly excellent quotes from those books, insights or particularly poetic turns of phrase that I know I’ll want to revisit. ![]()
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