Mackintosh, Sophie

Mackintosh’s unsettling latest will be devoured by her many fans. Share with readers who appreciate atmospheric books where nothing is as it seems.

This image-laden and lyrical first novel, its short chapters interspersed with brief, disturbing messages from women from the mainland, imagines a societal breakdown that has inflicted most of its harm on women, which seems both frightening and inevitable, offering a dark, extended metaphor on toxic male/female relations. [See Prepub Alert, 7/9/18.]