![]() By way of a series of complex games and ceremonies, they have been taught to love and hate each other in almost equal measure, and to fight for whatever narrow space of feeling might be given to them in their parents’ hearts. ![]() It transpires that the sisters have been raised on a dark combination of ritual punishment and redemption – the ‘cure’ ominously hinted at in the title. They live with their parents, King and Queen, although we learn in the novel’s opening sentence that their father has died, leaving the precarious dream he has created for them in this place to unravel. ![]() ![]() False utopias, and their human cost, are at the core of Sophie Mackintosh’s uneasy, hypnotic debut, which charts three sisters’ attempts to navigate the fallout from their father’s disappearance and the unexpected arrival of strange men on their fiercely protected soil.The sisters – Lia, Grace, and Sky – live on an island in an unspecified time and place, in a world that seems at once familiar and remote. ![]()
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