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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.<b>Compulsive, eerily gorgeous, [it] will have you gripped until the end</b>... A film adaptation feels inevitable... <b>As far as debuts go, this is superb</b>
Irish News
<b>A feminist dystopian fairy tale, </b>a sexual coming-of-age story and a survival-of-the-fittest tale. Evocative, suspenseful and bleak - <b>in short, everything this age seems to be demanding</b>
NPR
<b>[An] eerie, uncanny literary debut</b>... <b>Beautifully written, pared down and hypnotic</b>
Sunday Times Culture
<b>Bewitching... [An] ambiguous utopia</b>
Guardian
In raw, visceral prose, Mackintosh probes at ideas of the threat of male violence, the ways women are told to protect ourselves, love and sisterhood and survival. <b>A hypnotic, stormy book, with one of my favourite endings I've read in a long while</b>
The Pool
<b>Stunning</b>... A haunting story of abuse, death, and desire... <b>Chilling and topical, a breathtaking debut</b>
Dazed
<b>Eerily beautiful, this strange, unsettling novel creeps up and grabs hold of you</b>
- Paula Hawkins, author of 'The Girl on the Train',
<b>Darkly gratifying, dreamy, primal, and arresting [as] a fairy tale... </b>The overgrown grounds, with their perimeter of rusty barbed wire and shark-infested waters, resemble Sleeping Beauty's castle
New Yorker
<b>Searing, richly drawn, eerily compelling</b>... As foreboding in what it holds back as in what it reveals
Stylist
<b>Elemental... [A] utopia portrayed in spectral, organic prose</b>... Mackintosh is a wonderful stylist; the full scope of her imagination, as well as the cohesion of her vision, is evident on every page... <b>A seriously impressive feat</b>
Irish Times