TY - ABST T1 - Blue Ticket. A Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - Sophie Mackintosh (b. 1988) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

The novel is set in a future in which girls at puberty are chosen to have either marriage and motherhood or a career and independence.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London SN - 9780241404454 978-0-38554-563-1 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Doubleday, 2020. 287 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Placation" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sophie Mackintosh (b. 1988) ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

In the story, the Earth requires that it be placated annually with the body part of a human and focuses on a girl who cannot decide what part of her body to sacrifice. Compare to 1948 Jackson, “The Lottery.” 

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Water Cure Y1 - 2018 A1 - Sophie Mackintosh (b. 1988) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

The novel is set in what is presented as a dystopian future in which men have supposedly become literally toxic to women, and one man isolates his family, including his three daughters, on an island. It is never made clear is the toxicity actually exists. 

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London N1 -

U. S. edition New York: Doubleday, 2018

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