After hearing many positive reviews and recommendations for this novel I started reading Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield and I’m now about 60 pages in.
Just wondering if anyone else knows what time this book is set in? They have a landline, live in kind of a grungy city, and at one point Leah described a character as having “lost all but the cigarette fingers and thumb on his left hand” and like maybe I’m just out of the loop but what are the ‘cigarette fingers’ and why does it sound like a description from the 1950s?
Also I’m interested in what happened to Leah, but lately I’ve been wanting to just skip all of Miri’s chapters. All she’s describing is how Leah is staring off into space and then her annoying friend. Does her POV get better? Or should I just kind of skim her chapters until something happens?
Please advise. Thank you!
by October_13th