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The Water Cure: for fans of Hot Milk, The Girls and The Handmaid's Tale
Sophie Mackintosh
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Description for The Water Cure: for fans of Hot Milk, The Girls and The Handmaid's Tale
Paperback.
BRITISH VOGUE 'STAR OF THE FUTURE'
INDEPENDENT BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE
'A gripping, sinister fable' Margaret Atwood (via Twitter)
'An extraordinary debut - otherworldly, luminous, precise' Guardian
'Bold, inventive, haunting... With shades of Margaret Atwood and Eimear McBride, you'll be bowled over by it' Stylist
Grace, Lia and Sky live in an abandoned hotel, on a sun-bleached island, beside a poisoned sea. Their parents raised them there to keep them safe, to make them good. The world beyond the water is contaminated and men are the contamination. But one day three strangers wash ashore ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241983010
SKU
9780241983010
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
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About Sophie Mackintosh
Sophie Mackintosh is the author of three novels: The Water Cure, Blue Ticket and Cursed Bread. Her debut novel was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 and won a Betty Trask Award 2019. Cursed Bread was longlisted for the Women's Prize 2023. She has been published in Granta, The White Review and TANK magazine among others.
Reviews for The Water Cure: for fans of Hot Milk, The Girls and The Handmaid's Tale
Compulsive, eerily gorgeous, [it] will have you gripped until the end... A film adaptation feels inevitable... As far as debuts go, this is superb
Irish News
A feminist dystopian fairy tale, a sexual coming-of-age story and a survival-of-the-fittest tale. Evocative, suspenseful and bleak - in short, everything this age seems to be demanding
NPR
[An] eerie, ... Read more
Irish News
A feminist dystopian fairy tale, a sexual coming-of-age story and a survival-of-the-fittest tale. Evocative, suspenseful and bleak - in short, everything this age seems to be demanding
NPR
[An] eerie, ... Read more