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Novel Writers – Sophie Mackintosh
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Writer Sophie Mackintosh introduces and discusses her debut novel, The Water Cure, at Spike Island’s excellent Novel Writers.
“Imagine a world very close to our own: where women are not safe in their bodies, where desperate measures are required to raise a daughter. This is the story of Grace, Lia and Sky, kept apart from the world for their own good and taught the terrible things that every woman must learn about love. And it is the story of the men who come to find them – three strangers washed up by the sea, their gazes hungry and insistent, trailing desire and destruction in their wake.”
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.
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Praise for The Water Cure:
‘Immensely assured, calmly devastating. This is a gem of a novel and I was bowled over by it’ – Katherine Angel, author of Unmastered
‘Eerie, electric, beautiful. It rushes you through to the end on a tide of tension and closely held panic. I loved this book’ – Daisy Johnson, author of Fen
‘Creepy and delightful – it has a pinch of Shirley Jackson, a dash of chlorine, and an essence all of its own’ – Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You
Booking advised.
Photo credit: Sophie Davidson
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