Caly Recommends... The Water Cure - Sophie Mackintosh

A truly sticky and feverish fable following three sisters raised on a remote, sun-bleached island. As a result of being brutally conditioned by their parents to fear the poisonous outside world and the repulsive men who inhabit it, we are presented with a sinister distortion of life that is eerie and utterly immersive. Examining sister relationships, the natural world and brutal inherited legacies that carry across even the vastest expanses of water, this is a phenomenally hypnotic dystopian tale that plunges us into the phycological depths of three girls raised on fear. 

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Grace, Lia and Sky live in an abandoned hotel, on a sun-bleached island, beside a poisoned sea. Their parents raised them there to keep them safe, to make them good. The world beyond the water is contaminated and men are the contamination.

But one day three strangers wash ashore - men who stare at the sisters hungrily, helplessly. Men who bring trouble.

'A gripping, sinister fable' Margaret Atwood

'An extraordinary debut - otherworldly, luminous, precise' Guardian