The water cure - sophie mackintosh

A gripping, sinister fable --Margaret Atwood, via Twitter ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR - GLAMOUR - GOOD HOUSEKEEPING - LIT HUB - THRILLIST King has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters, Grace, Lia, and Sky.

Here on his island, women are protected from the chaos and violence of men on the mainland.

The cult-like rituals and therapies they endure fortify them from the spreading toxicity of a degrading world.

But when King disappears and two men and a boy wash ashore, the sisters safe world begins to unravel.

Over the span of one blistering hot week, a psychological cat-and-mouse game plays out.

Sexual tensions and sibling rivalries flare as the sisters are forced to confront the amorphous threat the strangers represent.

A haunting, riveting debut, The Water Cure is a fiercely poetic feminist revenge fantasy thats a startling reflection of our time.