Mackintosh’s “The Water Cure,” longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2018, also dealt with women living restricted lives. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-06-30 08:26:14 UTC ]
A trio of acquiring editors, all assistants at the time, worked together to edit debut novelist Sophie Mackintosh's Man Booker–longlisted feminist dystopian bildungsroman. Here's how that happened. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hamish Hamilton has bought the second novel of Sophie Mackintosh, whose debut The Water Cure was acquired in a seven-way auction and longlisted for 2018's Man Booker Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
As Feminist Book Fortnight draws to a close, we spoke to debut author Sophie Mackintosh, whose devastating dystopian novel The Water Cure (Hamish Hamilton) has drawn comparisons to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]