Description
Author of "The Water Cure" Sophie Mackintosh presents a world in which women are assigned a destiny of either child-bearing or childlessness by lottery. An enquiry into free will and the nature of motherhood.
Sophie Mackintosh is the author of The Water Cure, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 and won a Betty Trask Award 2019. She has also won the White Review Short Story Prize and the Virago/Stylist Short Story Competition, and has been published in Granta, The White Review and TANK magazine among others. Her second novel, Blue Ticket, comes out in summer 2020.