Sophie Mackintosh won the 2016 White Review Short Story Prize and the 2016 Virago/Stylist Short Story competition, and has been published in Granta magazine and Tank magazine, among others. The Water Cure is her first novel.
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2019 BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, VOGUE,
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more "Ingenious and incendiary"
--THE NEW YORKER
"Sensational...Mackintosh's taut novel turns a keen, unsparing eye
on violence, patriarchy, and desire."
--ESQUIRE (25 Most Anticipated Books of 2019)
"Eerily beautiful, this strange, unsettling novel creeps up and
grabs hold of you."
--PAULA HAWKINS, New York Times bestselling author of GIRL ON THE
TRAIN
"An extraordinary otherworldly debut... [Mackintosh] is writing the
way that Sofia Coppola would shoot the end of the world: Everything
is luminous."
--THE GUARDIAN
"[A] chilling, beautifully written novel...the tautness and tension
of the writing are staggering."
--Judges Panel Citation, the MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 "Mackintosh's
novel follows in the footsteps of The Handmaid's Tale...but this
debut has its own alluring style, which has prompted comparisons to
The Virgin Suicides for its gauzy, heady sexuality; lacy, precise
prose; and the luminous sisters at its core."
--VOGUE
"Mackintosh's entry [into feminist dystopian fiction] is among the
best, not least because it gets to the root of the genre by
dissecting a warped utopia...Three men arrive on the island, and
twists ensue -- not cheap pyrotechnics but reversals of moral
structure, revelations that demonstrate why the subtlest fiction is
often the most powerful."
--VULTURE "Sophie Mackintosh casts an exquisite, irresistible spell
in her thrilling debut. Ablaze with beauty, desire, and dread, The
Water Cure is a shattering look at patriarchal control and how far
three sisters will go to free themselves from it".
--LENI ZUMAS, author of RED CLOCKS "At once dreamy and disturbing,
The Water Cure is a gripping work, a dizzying labyrinth of
conflicting realities."
--HELEN PHILIPS, author of THE BEAUTIFUL BUREAUCRAT "Creepy and
sexy in equal measure, The Water Cure is a hypnotic portrait of
three young women waking up to the world, desire, and the power of
their bodies."
--THE INDEPENDENT
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