A Reading and Q&A with Sophie Mackintosh, Paris Writer in Residence

Join us for a reading and conversation with Sophie Mackintosh, a writer based in London. Her debut novel The Water Cure was nominated for the 2018 Man Booker Prize, and her second novel, Blue Ticket, was published in 2020. Praised for its "cool intensity and strange beauty," Mackintosh's work has been characterised by the Guardian as feminist fiction that "relate[s] uncannily to our dystopian times." The New York Times situates Blue Ticket in the tradition of Orwell's 1984 and Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and the New Yorker points to how the novel poses "questions about motherhood, female solidarity, queer love and bodily autonomy." Mackintosh’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Granta and The Stinging Fly, among other places. She is in Paris working on her third novel, Cursed Bread, which is set in rural France of the 1950s.