Book Club with Julia and Victoria 123 Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield — Monsters of the Deep Subconscious
Julia and Victoria learn what the word “flannel” means in British English and formulate their own theories about what happened to a stranded deep-sea researcher in the devastatingly beautiful novel Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (film)
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Our Flag Means Death (TV show)
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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
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Piranesi by Susanna Clark
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