From the Booker Prize-nominated author of The Water Cure comes a
chilling new feminist fable based on the true story of an unsolved
mystery... A Good Housekeeping recommended read for 2023 'Sensual,
luminous, transcendent. It confirms Mackintosh as one of our finest
young writers' The Bookseller 'A thrilling and subversive fable'
i-D If you eat the bread, you'll die, he said. The statement made
no sense, but it filled me with an electric dread. Elodie is the
baker's wife. A plain, unremarkable woman, ignored by her husband
and underestimated by her neighbours, she burns with the secret
desire to be extraordinary. One day a charismatic new couple appear
in town - the ambassador and his sharp-toothed wife, Violet - and
Elodie quickly falls under their spell. All summer long she stalks
them through the shining streets: inviting herself into their home,
eavesdropping on their coded conversations, longing to be part of
their world. Meanwhile, beneath the tranquil surface of daily life,
strange things are happening. Six horses are found dead in a
sun-drenched field, laid out neatly on the ground like an offering.
Widows see their lost husbands walking up the moonlit river, coming
back to claim them. A teenage boy throws himself into the bonfire
at the midsummer feast. A dark intoxication is spreading through
the town, and when Elodie finally understands her role in it, it
will be too late to stop. Audacious and mesmerising, Cursed Bread
is a fevered confession, an entry into memory's hall of mirrors, a
fable of obsession and transformation. Sophie Mackintosh spins a
darkly gleaming tale of a town gripped by hysteria, envy like
poison in the blood, and desire that burns and consumes. Praise for
Sophie Mackintosh: 'Be sure to read everything Sophie Mackintosh
writes' Deborah Levy on Blue Ticket 'An extraordinary debut -
otherworldly, luminous, precise' Guardian on The Water Cure
'Dreamlike, tense, compelling, with a pitch-perfect ending' The New
York Times on Blue Ticket 'An unsettling dark fantasy... It lingers
long after the final page' Daily Telegraph on The Water Cure 'Blue
Ticket will worm its way under your skin and haunt your dreams' Red
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