The Water Cure

'A gripping, sinister fable' Margaret Atwood (via Twitter) 'An extraordinary debut. Otherworldly, luminous, precise... She is writing the way that Sofia Coppola would shoot the end of the world' Guardian 'Bold, inventive, haunting... With shades of Margaret Atwood and Eimear McBride, you'll be bowled over by it' Stylist You are a girl. Your body is vulnerable. Men will break it if they can - and out there, they absolutely can. Suffering will prepare you for the worst. The cure is nothing compared to what you've been spared in the sickness. It takes a lot of love to hurt you like this. Now, come outside. It's time to play the drowning game. Imagine three sisters raised on an island, taught to fear the outside world and its men. And imagine the men who come to find them: three strangers washed up by the sea, bringing desire and destruction in their wake... '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, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Everything Under 'Otherworldly, brutal and poetic: a feminist fable set by the sea, a female Lord of the Flies . It felt like a book I'd been waiting to read for a long time' Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals

Product details

• Authors: Sophie Mackintosh
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.04.2019
• EAN: 9780241983010
• ISBN: 978-0-241-98301-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 196 mm x 15 mm
• Series: 191 POCHE; 191 POCHE
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Science Fiction, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Intended primarily or specifically for women and/or girls, Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic, Dystopian and utopian fiction