"A gripping, sinister fable "--MARGARET ATWOOD, via Twitter LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZEA dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three sisters on an isolated island, raised to fear men King has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters, Grace, Lia, and Sky.
The Water Cure is her first novel..
About the Author: 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.
Can they survive the men? A haunting, riveting debut about the capacity for violence and the potency of female desire, The Water Cure both devastates and astonishes as it reflects our own world back at us.
Sexual tensions and sibling rivalries flare as the sisters confront the amorphous threat the strangers represent.
Over the span of one blistering hot week, a psychological cat-and-mouse game plays out.
But when their father, the only man they\'ve ever seen, disappears, they retreat further inward until the day two men and a boy wash ashore.
The cult-like rituals and therapies they endure fortify them from the spreading toxicity of a degrading world.
Here women are protected from the chaos and violence of men on the mainland.
Or viewed from another angle: Not safe to leave.
He has lain the barbed wire; he has anchored the buoys in the water; he has marked out a clear message: Do not enter. "A gripping, sinister fable "--MARGARET ATWOOD, via Twitter LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZEA dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three sisters on an isolated island, raised to fear men King has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters, Grace, Lia, and Sky
