The Water Cure: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018

ISBN-13: 9780241983010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str.

Sophie Mackintosh

Opis

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 - men who stare at the sisters hungrily, helplessly. Men who bring trouble.Visceral, hypnotic . . . with one of my favourite endings Ive read in a long while The PoolAn unsettling dark fantasy... [It] lingers long after the final page Daily TelegraphOtherworldly, brutal and poetic: a feminist fable set by the sea, a female Lord of the Flies. It felt like a book Id been waiting to read for a long time Emma Jane Unsworth

Recenzje

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

O autorze

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.