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Biographical note
Sophie Mackintosh is the author of three novels: The Water Cure, Blue Ticket and Cursed Bread. Her debut novel was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 and won a Betty Trask Award 2019. Cursed Bread was longlisted for the Women's Prize 2023. She has been published in Granta, The White Review and TANK magazine among others.<b>Definitely don't miss the return of Sophie Mackintosh...</b> <i>Blue Ticket </i>gets to the root of women's ambivalence and confusion around becoming mothers set against an unsettling dystopia; <b>she's amazing</b>
Stylist, Best Autumn Reads 2020
<b>Dreamlike, tense, compelling... </b><i>Blue Ticket</i> adds something new to the dystopian tradition set by Orwell's <i>1984 </i>or Atwood's <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i>... <b>Piercing moments of wisdom and insight drive toward a pitch-perfect ending</b>
The New York Times
<b>The cool intensity and strange beauty of <i>Blue Ticket</i> is a wonder - be sure to read everything Sophie Mackintosh writes</b>
- Deborah Levy, author of 'Hot Milk',
<b>Even more hallucinatory and spiralled than her first [novel]... Terrifying and enchanting in equal measure</b>
Lit Hub, Best New Books to Read This Summer
<b><i>The Handmaid's Tale</i> as told by David Lynch...</b> A bona fide chase narrative as well as a polyvalent, dream-like allegory of pregnancy and bodily change - not to mention the vortex of judgement that surrounds womanhood... Mackintosh is part of an exciting generation of writers, including Daisy Johnson and Julia Armfield... <b><i>Blue Ticket</i> stands apart from the crowd</b>
- Anthony Cummins, iNews
<b>One of the most disquieting novels I've read in a long time, <i>Blue Ticket</i> will worms its way under your skin and haunt your dreams</b>
Red, 'Best Books of August'
<b>Gripping, ethereal, atmospheric...</b> Mackintosh handles haziness deliberately and with poise, demonstrating the near impossibility of trying to articulate or rationalise maternal desire
Sunday Times
Mackintosh writes with a language drawn from the body.... <b>Impressionistic and haunting in equal measure</b>
- Annabel Nugent, Independent
<b>Visceral, primal, </b><b>striking... </b>This is a potent exploration of biology and agency, motherhood and childlessness, which <b>confirms [Mackintosh] as a writer of note</b>
Daily Mail
<b>Mackintosh is part of a new generation of female writers creating feminist fictions that relate uncannily to our dystopian times... </b>[Her] fiction lives, to an unusual extent, in its musicality, in the rhythm and spareness of its sentences
- Claire Armitstead, Guardian Review