Three sisters, a mansion, an island. Their parents will protect them from the world—from the men.
After the father dies, the mother continues to force her daughters to perform strange rituals involving iron rods, salt, and water. They report potential contamination whenever they see a flying bird.
They swim, they conspire, they submit to ice-bucket therapy.
In The Water Cure, the metronomic trance of a new novel by Sophie Mackintosh, the languid days will soon be spattered with blood.
Two men wash ashore with a young boy. The handsome one has his eyes on Lia.
Of course, even before that, a man had damaged her sister, Grace. The girls haven’t been taught how these things work, but there was only one man around when his own daughter got pregnant. PLEASE READ
