Mackintosh, Sophie <br/><br/>
The Water Cure :  a novel 
/ Sophie Mackintosh 
 - New York  : Doubleday  , 2018 
 - 269 p.  ; 22 cm. 
<br/><br/> A dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three sisters on an isolated island, raised to fear men. King has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters, Grace, Lia, and Sky. He has lain the barbed wire; he has anchored the buoys in the water; he has marked out a clear message: Do not enter . Or viewed from another angle: Not safe to leave . Here women are protected from the chaos and violence of men on the mainland. The cult-like rituals and therapies they endure fortify them from the spreading toxicity of a degrading world. But when their father, the only man they've ever seen, disappears, they retreat further inward until the day two men and a boy wash ashore. Over the span of one blistering hot week, a psychological cat-and-mouse game plays out. Sexual tensions and sibling rivalries flare as the sisters confront the amorphous threat the strangers represent. Can they survive the men? 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/> Longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780385543873 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Coming of age---Fiction<br/>Island life---Fiction<br/>Sisters---Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC MAC