Blue Ticket
- Author Sophie Mackintosh
- Narrator Freya Mavor
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 7 hours and 49 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Dystopian and utopian fiction, Feminism and feminist theory, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues.
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What to expect
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Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Water Cure
RECOMMENDED READING FOR 2020 by Stylist, Evening Standard, Esquire, Red, Daily Mail, Oprah Magazine, LitHub, and Emma Roberts's Belletrist Book Club
'The cool intensity and strange beauty of Blue Ticket is a wonder - be sure to read everything Sophie Mackintosh writes' Deborah Levy, author of Hot Milk
'Definitely don't miss the return of Sophie Mackintosh... She's amazing' Stylist, Best Reads of Autumn 2020
Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you children. A blue ticket grants you freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. And, once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back.
But what if the life you're given is the wrong one?
Blue Ticket is a devastating enquiry into free will and the fraught space of motherhood. Bold and chilling, it pushes beneath the skin of female identity and patriarchal violence, to the point where human longing meets our animal bodies.
'Dreamlike, tense, compelling, [with] a pitch-perfect ending' The New York Times
'Gripping, ethereal, atmospheric' Sunday Times
'Thoughtful and haunting' Observer
'Terrifying and enchanting in equal measure' LitHub
'Blue Ticket will worms its way under your skin and haunt your dreams' Red
© Sophie Mackintosh 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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Definitely don’t miss the return of Sophie Mackintosh… Blue Ticket gets to the root of women’s ambivalence and confusion around becoming mothers set against an unsettling dystopia; she’s amazing
Stylist, Best Autumn Reads 2020 -
Dreamlike, tense, compelling… Blue Ticket adds something new to the dystopian tradition set by Orwell’s 1984 or Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale… Piercing moments of wisdom and insight drive toward a pitch-perfect ending
The New York Times -
The cool intensity and strange beauty of Blue Ticket is a wonder – be sure to read everything Sophie Mackintosh writes
Deborah Levy, author of 'Hot Milk' -
Even more hallucinatory and spiralled than her first [novel]… Terrifying and enchanting in equal measure
Lit Hub, Best New Books to Read This Summer -
The Handmaid’s Tale as told by David Lynch… A bona fide chase narrative as well as a polyvalent, dream-like allegory of pregnancy and bodily change – not to mention the vortex of judgement that surrounds womanhood… Mackintosh is part of an exciting generation of writers, including Daisy Johnson and Julia Armfield… Blue Ticket stands apart from the crowd
iNews -
One of the most disquieting novels I’ve read in a long time, Blue Ticket will worms its way under your skin and haunt your dreams
Red, 'Best Books of August'
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