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If one or more items are not available when you place your order there may be a delay in dispatch, so that we can send your items in as few parcels as possible. Items are usually dispatched within twenty-four to seventy-two hours. Orders are processed and dispatched Monday to Friday. ‘ Blue Ticket will worm its way under your skin and haunt your dreams’ – Red ‘ An unsettling dark fantasy…It lingers long after the final page’ – Daily Telegraph ‘ Dreamlike, tense, compelling, with a pitch-perfect ending’ – The New York Times ‘ An extraordinary debut – otherworldly, luminous, precise’ – Guardian ‘ Be sure to read everything Sophie Mackintosh writes’ – Deborah Levy

It confirms Mackintosh as one of our finest young writers’ – The Bookseller 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. A teenage boy throws himself into the bonfire at the midsummer feast.Ī dark intoxication is spreading through the town, and when Elodie finally understands her role in it, it will be too late to stop.Īudacious and mesmerising, Cursed Bread is a fevered confession, an entry into memory’s hall of mirrors, a fable of obsession and transformation. Widows see their lost husbands walking up the moonlit river, coming back to claim them. Six horses are found dead in a sun-drenched field, laid out neatly on the ground like an offering.

Meanwhile, beneath the tranquil surface of daily life, strange things are happening. One day a charismatic new couple appear in town – the ambassador and his sharp-toothed wife, Violet – and Elodie quickly falls under their spell.Īll 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. A plain, unremarkable woman, ignored by her husband and underestimated by her neighbours, she burns with the secret desire to be extraordinary. The statement made no sense, but it filled me with an electric dread. If you eat the bread, you’ll die, he said.

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