![]() ![]() ![]() Mackintosh is arched over my dictaphone, hoping her voice will cut through the surrounding chatter. ![]() Slowly, everything changes and a deep, pervading obsession begins to eat Elodie.Ī cursory google search of Saint-Esprit will reveal the terrible tragedy which befell it’s population in 1951, the cause of which is still unknown to this day. One day, a strange couple arrives in the town. On the table between us is a tattered, uncorrected proof of her third novel, Cursed Bread.Ĭursed Bread tells the story of Elodie, a baker’s wife, living in the sleepy, picturesque town of Pont-Saint-Esprit in southern France. Blue Ticket, followed two years later with critics citing a similar ‘ethereal’ nature and overarching feminist themes. ![]() Her debut, The Water Cure, a dystopian fairy-tale set on a remote island, was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker prize. Mackintosh is the author of three novels. She declines Sophie’s been thinking about bread a little too much lately. Visitors to Sophocles come and go, and today, wedged behind the cake display, the author, Sophie Mackintosh is gazing into the black, reflecting surface of her americano. Since then, Sophocles Bakery has continued to produce its cinder-block loaves, continued to serve that same pair of Greek geriatrics, doomed to sit for eternity at that same table. When the great, Greek tragedian, Sophocles, died, he begrudgingly gave his name to a little bakery in Camberwell. ![]()
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