Sophie Mackintosh (born 1988)[1] is a British novelist and short story writer.
[3] Mackintosh was born in South Wales and grew up in Pembrokeshire, and attended Ysgol y Preseli, a Welsh language school in Crymych.
[7] British book editor Hermione Thompson who works for Penguin books and published the novel, wrote about the novel, “The Water Cure is an astonishing novel: it unfolds seductively, like a dream (or a nightmare), yet speaks urgently to the concerns of our own world.
It heralds the arrival of a radical new voice in literary fiction.”[8] Her second novel, Blue Ticket, was published in September 2020.
It is a work of dystopian science fiction set in a future in which women are only allowed to become mothers through a lottery of blue and white tickets.