The Water Cure
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INDEPENDENT BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE
'A gripping, sinister fable' Margaret Atwood
'An extraordinary debut - otherworldly, luminous, precise' Guardian
'Bold, inventive, haunting . . . With shades of Margaret Atwood and Eimear McBride, you'll be bowled over by it' Stylist
A hypnotic coming-of-age story for fans of The Power, The Vegetarian, I Who Have Never Known Men and The Girls
Grace, Lia and Sky live in an abandoned hotel, on a sun-bleached island, beside a poisoned sea. Their parents raised them there to keep them safe, to make them good. The world beyond the water is contaminated and men are the contamination. But one day three strangers wash ashore - men who stare at the sisters hungrily, helplessly. Men who bring trouble.
*****
'A feminist fable set by the sea, a female Lord of the Flies. It felt like a book I'd been waiting to read for a long time' Emma Jane Unsworth
'Visceral, hypnotic, with one of my favourite endings I've read in a long while' The Pool
'An unsettling dark fantasy... [It] lingers long after the final page' Daily Telegraph
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The world building and characters left me amazed. Truly a remarkable piece of dystopian Literature.
. I had to read this book for a course on feminist dystopian fiction and I loved every second of my reading experience. The isolated island is such a strong tool in building a new world as a sort of save habour from the outside. A pretty voluntary prison of sorts. It was a bit harder to get into this ones, especially due to POV changes and adapting to a new sort of world. But after a couple pages I was invested. I took a long break in between but the effect of the pages was still very strong. šŖšµš 5 š¦šš®šæš? ā I don't see any other rating that would make sense to me, I enjoyed reading about the sisters' world and it kept me at the edge of my seat. The characters are very strong whilst also being real, they show strong emotions without a care in the world. The story did not need to explain itself and it felt like there was a natural flow in the reading experience. I truly recommend this book.
Description
INDEPENDENT BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE
'A gripping, sinister fable' Margaret Atwood
'An extraordinary debut - otherworldly, luminous, precise' Guardian
'Bold, inventive, haunting . . . With shades of Margaret Atwood and Eimear McBride, you'll be bowled over by it' Stylist
A hypnotic coming-of-age story for fans of The Power, The Vegetarian, I Who Have Never Known Men and The Girls
Grace, Lia and Sky live in an abandoned hotel, on a sun-bleached island, beside a poisoned sea. Their parents raised them there to keep them safe, to make them good. The world beyond the water is contaminated and men are the contamination. But one day three strangers wash ashore - men who stare at the sisters hungrily, helplessly. Men who bring trouble.
*****
'A feminist fable set by the sea, a female Lord of the Flies. It felt like a book I'd been waiting to read for a long time' Emma Jane Unsworth
'Visceral, hypnotic, with one of my favourite endings I've read in a long while' The Pool
'An unsettling dark fantasy... [It] lingers long after the final page' Daily Telegraph
Book Information
Posts
The world building and characters left me amazed. Truly a remarkable piece of dystopian Literature.
. I had to read this book for a course on feminist dystopian fiction and I loved every second of my reading experience. The isolated island is such a strong tool in building a new world as a sort of save habour from the outside. A pretty voluntary prison of sorts. It was a bit harder to get into this ones, especially due to POV changes and adapting to a new sort of world. But after a couple pages I was invested. I took a long break in between but the effect of the pages was still very strong. šŖšµš 5 š¦šš®šæš? ā I don't see any other rating that would make sense to me, I enjoyed reading about the sisters' world and it kept me at the edge of my seat. The characters are very strong whilst also being real, they show strong emotions without a care in the world. The story did not need to explain itself and it felt like there was a natural flow in the reading experience. I truly recommend this book.