![]() ![]() Their parents run elaborate, primitive purification treatments for women harmed by men from the outside world. Earlier this year, she told British Vogue, “I want to be doing work that makes a change”.Ī Welsh writer based in London, her debut novel The Water Cure, which was long-listed for the 2018 Man Booker Prize, is a multi-voiced, slow-burning novel told from the perspective of three sisters stuck on a remote island. Mackintosh isn’t one to shy away from difficult, messy, daring interrogations of how women are seen-and treated-in so-called modern society. She hatches an escape plan, but discovers it’s not so easy to make a clean getaway, or figure out who you truly belong with. The novel’s anti-heroine, Calla, soon falls pregnant even though it was her predetermined destiny not to. Sophie Mackintosh’s second novel imagines a world in which women’s decisions around pregnancy and childbearing are decided by a lottery. ![]()
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