The Water Cure (Sophie Mackintosh)

A gripping, sinister fable - MARGARET ATWOOD, via TwitterAn extraordinary debut novel. Otherworldly, luminous, precise... She is writing the way that Sofia Coppola would shoot the end of the world GuardianShortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Breakthrough AwardBold, inventive, haunting... With shades of Margaret Atwood and Eimear McBride, youll be bowled over by it Stylist Visceral, hypnotic... with one of my favourite endings Ive read in a long while The PoolImagine 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 youre a fan of The Handmaids Tale youll love this one Evening StandardImmensely assured, calmly devastating Katherine Angel, author of UnmasteredA work of cool, claustrophobic beauty Eli Goldstone, author of Strange Heart BeatingEerily beautiful, strange and unsettling Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the TrainOtherworldly, 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 Id been waiting to read for a long time Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals