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Imprint: Hamish Hamilton
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Published: 24/05/2018
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ISBN: 9780241334744
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Length: 256 Pages
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Dimensions: 222mm x 26mm x 144mm
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Weight: 395g
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RRP: £12.99
'A gripping, sinister fable' - MARGARET ATWOOD, via Twitter
'An extraordinary debut novel. Otherworldly, luminous, precise... She is writing the way that Sofia Coppola would shoot the end of the world' Guardian
Shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Breakthrough Award
'Bold, inventive, haunting... With shades of Margaret Atwood and Eimear McBride, you'll be bowled over by it' Stylist
'Visceral, hypnotic... with one of my favourite endings I've read in a long while' The Pool
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.
The Water Cure is a fever dream, a blazing vision of suffering, sisterhood and transformation.
'If you're a fan of The Handmaid's Tale you'll love this one' Evening Standard
'Immensely assured, calmly devastating' Katherine Angel, author of Unmastered
'A work of cool, claustrophobic beauty' Eli Goldstone, author of Strange Heart Beating
'Eerily beautiful, strange [and] unsettling' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train
'Otherworldly, brutal and poetic: a feminist fable set by the sea, a female Lord of the Flies. It transported me, savaged me, filled me with hope and fear. It felt like a book I'd been waiting to read for a long time' Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals
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Imprint: Hamish Hamilton
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Published: 24/05/2018
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ISBN: 9780241334744
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Length: 256 Pages
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Dimensions: 222mm x 26mm x 144mm
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Weight: 395g
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RRP: £12.99
Reviews
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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
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A feminist dystopian fairy tale, a sexual coming-of-age story and a survival-of-the-fittest tale. Evocative, suspenseful and bleak - in short, everything this age seems to be demanding
NPR
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[An] eerie, uncanny literary debut... Beautifully written, pared down and hypnotic
Sunday Times Culture
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Bewitching... [An] ambiguous utopia
Guardian
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In raw, visceral prose, Mackintosh probes at ideas of the threat of male violence, the ways women are told to protect ourselves, love and sisterhood and survival. A hypnotic, stormy book, with one of my favourite endings I've read in a long while
The Pool
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Stunning... A haunting story of abuse, death, and desire... Chilling and topical, a breathtaking debut
Dazed
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Eerily beautiful, this strange, unsettling novel creeps up and grabs hold of you
Paula Hawkins, author of 'The Girl on the Train'
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Darkly gratifying, dreamy, primal, and arresting [as] a fairy tale... The overgrown grounds, with their perimeter of rusty barbed wire and shark-infested waters, resemble Sleeping Beauty's castle
New Yorker
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Searing, richly drawn, eerily compelling... As foreboding in what it holds back as in what it reveals
Stylist
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Elemental... [A] utopia portrayed in spectral, organic prose... Mackintosh is a wonderful stylist; the full scope of her imagination, as well as the cohesion of her vision, is evident on every page... A seriously impressive feat
Irish Times
