Armfield, Julia
Entry updated 3 February 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1990- ) UK author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Mantis" in Neon for May 2018. Her first novel, Our Wives Under the Sea (2022), which hints Equipoisally at a Horror-In-Sf "explanation", follows the protagonist's slowly intensifying acquaintance with grief as her wife suffers/undergoes metamorphosis into something like the benthic creature she has encountered in a scientific expedition Under the Sea (see Gender). In Private Rites (2024) revolves around expressions of traumatized grief as expressed by three "dyke" sisters for their dead father, an architect for the rich (see Arrested Development); the tale is given a Near-Future armature, so that the constant rain that submerges the world in what seems to be metaphorical pathos can be seen as (also) due to Climate Change. In a distant "CITY", an otherwise unnamed London (see also Cities), what may be the voice of an AI provides ongoing comments on the efforts of Homo sapiens to survive what may seem to be terminus. [JC]
Julia Armfield
born London: 1 January 1990
works
- Our Wives Under the Sea (London: Picador, 2022) [hb/]
- Private Rites (London: Fourth Estate, 2024) [hb/]
collections and stories
- Salt Slow (London: Picador, 2019) [coll: hb/]
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