Sophie Mackintosh
Sophie Mackintosh’s debut novel, The Water Cure, was published by Hamish Hamilton in 2018; it was longlisted for the Man Booker prize and won a Betty Trask award. Her fiction, essays and poetry have been published by the White Review, the New York Times and the Stinging Fly, among others. Her next novel, Blue Ticket, will be published in 2020.
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In Conversation | The Online Edition
Podcast | Sophie Mackintosh
Sophie Mackintosh
‘Imagine if an alien came to earth and asked, so how to you reproduce?’
We discuss Blue Ticket and the body horror of motherhood.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation
Avni Doshi & Sophie Mackintosh
‘I do wonder to what extent writing about motherhood is actually writing about being mothered’.
Fiction | The Online Edition
The Last Rite of the Body
Sophie Mackintosh
‘My ex-boyfriend dies, and we all gather to put our hands into his body.’ New fiction from Sophie Mackintosh.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Best book of 1983: The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
Sophie Mackintosh
‘After 2016 I’m done with sentimentality, and it’s hard to think of a less sentimental book than The Piano Teacher, objectively a masterpiece, subjectively a book that changed my life.’
Fiction | The Online Edition
The Weak Spot
Sophie Mackintosh
‘There was a certain kind of teenage girl who would relish not just the killing, but the trophy taking, choosing a tooth and using the pliers herself.’
