Description: "The cool intensity and strange beauty of Blue Ticket is a wonder - be sure to read everything Sophie Mackintosh writes." -- DEBORAH LEVY, author of HOT MILK and THE MAN WHO SAW EVERYTHING "Strange and luminous, beautifully spare and precise: Sophie Mackintosh constructs her disturbing premise with such skill that I found myself forgetting that the world of Blue Ticket is not (quite) our own. A thrilling and nuanced exploration of what it means to follow one's own longing to the point of destruction and beyond" -- ROSIE PRICE, author of WHAT RED WAS " Blue Ticket manages to be both claustrophobic and expansive, dream-like and heart-stoppingly tense. Lushly textured and stunningly written, you will want to languish in its world for a very long time" -- LARA WILLIAMS, author of SUPPER CLUB "This book left me breathless - it is gloriously subversive in its exploration of motherhood and desire. I'll be pressing it on everyone" -- ANGELA CHADWICK, author of XX Praise for Sophie Mackintosh and The Water Cure: "A gripping, sinister fable!" -- MARGARET ATWOOD, via Twitter "Darkly gratifying, primal and arresting...ingenious and incendiary" --NEW YORKER "An extraordinary otherworldly debut... [Mackintosh] is writing the way that Sofia Coppola would shoot the end of the world: Everything is luminous." -- THE GUARDIAN "Sensational...Mackintosh's taut novel turns a keen, unsparing eye on violence, patriarchy, and desire." -- ESQUIRE "[A] chilling, beautifully written novel...the tautness and tension of the writing are staggering." -- Judges Panel Citation, MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 "I loved this book. It rushes you through to the end on a tide of tension and closely held panic. Eerie, beautiful, electric." -- DAISY JOHNSON, author of EVERYTHING UNDER "Sophie Mackintosh casts an exquisite, irresistible spell..." --LENI ZUMAS, author of RED CLOCKS

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