Sophie Mackintosh: Blue Ticket

BY THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE WATER CURE RECOMMENDED READING by Stylist, Evening Standard, Esquire, Red, Daily Mail, Oprah Magazine, LitHub, and Emma Robertss Belletrist Book Club For fans of Kazuo Ishiguros Klara and the Sun... Definitely dont miss the return of Sophie Mackintosh Stylist The cool intensity and strange beauty of Blue Ticket is a wonder - be sure to read everything Sophie Mackintosh writes Deborah Levy Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the lottery station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you children. A blue ticket grants you freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. Or, to put it another way, you have no choice. And once youve taken your ticket, there is no going back. But what if the life youre given is the wrong one? Blue Ticket is a devastating enquiry into free will and the fraught space of motherhood. Bold and chilling, it pushes beneath the skin of female identity and patriarchal violence, to the point where human longing meets our animal bodies. Dreamlike, tense, compelling, [with] a pitch-perfect ending The New York Times Gripping, ethereal, atmospheric Sunday Times Thoughtful and haunting Observer Terrifying and enchanting in equal measure LitHub Blue Ticket will worms its way under your skin and haunt your dreams Red