Sophie Mackintosh – “Cursed Bread” and Creative Writing Workshop

ACCLAIMED Pembrokeshire novelist Sophie Mackintosh – Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure – will be discussing her latest work at Fishguard’s Ar Ymyl y Tir 2023 On Land’s Edge Festival next month.

Published by Hamish Hamilton in March, Cursed Bread – long-listed for the 2023 Women’s Prize – is described as ‘a tale of a town gripped by madness, envy like poison in the blood, and desire that burns and consumes’

The author of ‘Blue Ticket’, in addition to ‘The Water Cure’, Sophie – who was raised near Narberth – had her first novel longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 and won a Betty Trask Award in 2019.

She has also won the White Review Short Story Prize and the Virago/Stylist Short Story Competition, and has been published in Granta, The White Review and TANK magazine among others.

Elodie is the baker’s wife. Plain, unremarkable, ignored, she burns with a secret hunger to be extraordinary.

One day a charismatic new couple appear in town and Elodie quickly falls under their spell.

All summer long she stalks them through the shining streets: inviting herself into their home, listening to their coded conversations, longing to possess them.

Meanwhile, beneath the tranquil surface of daily life, strange things are happening…

Sophie will be hosting a creative writing workshop as well as discussing her latest work with Sue Lewis at Peppers on Sunday, September 24th.