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The Water Cure
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  • Published: 7 May 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241983010
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $28.00

The Water Cure

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7 May 2019
EBook
31 May 2018
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24 May 2018
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A dreamlike and compulsive feminist dystopia for the #metoo generation

You are a girl. Your body is vulnerable. Men will break it if they can - and out there, they absolutely can.

Suffering will prepare you for the worst. The cure is nothing compared to what you've been spared in the sickness. It takes a lot of love to hurt you like this.

Now, come outside. It's time to play the drowning game.
  • Published: 7 May 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241983010
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $28.00
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Sophie Mackintosh

Sophie Mackintosh is the author of four novels, including The Water Cure and Cursed Bread. She has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Women's Prize, has won a Betty Trask Award, and has been selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. She has been published in Granta, The White Review and TANK magazine among others. Her latest novel, Permanence, is out now.
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