The Water Cure: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 Audiobook (Free)

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Penguin presents the audiobook release of The Drinking water Treatment by Sophie Mackintosh, read by Hannah Murray, Gemma Whelan and Morfydd Clark.

A long time ago, damaged females came here to become cured. We had taken them in, fed them glasses of our about WATER Remedy: LONGLISTED FOR THE PERSON BOOKER Award 2018 clean, great water, let them scream at the waves till their lips divide like ripe fruits. Now nobody is remaining but my sisters and me. King died a year ago, quite suddenly. Mother has vanished, no-one knows where. As well as the safe compound they constructed around us, far away from the dangerous world, provides finally been breached.

Three men arrived last week, washed up by the sea, their gazes hungry and insistent. We keep in mind today what our father trained us. ‘If the males come to you, show yourself some mercy. Don’t stick around and await them to place you out of the misery.’

‘Hugely assured, calmly damaging. That is a jewel of a book and I was bowled over by it’ -Katherine Angel, writer of Unmastered

‘I loved this book. It rushes you through to the end on the tide of pressure and closely held panic. Eerie, electric, beautiful’ – Daisy Johnson, writer of Fen

‘Creepy and delightful – it includes a pinch of Shirley Jackson, a dash of chlorine, and an essence most of its personal’ – Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, writer of Harmless AS IF YOU

‘Devastating. A work of awesome, claustrophobic beauty’ Eli Goldstone, author of Strange Center Beating