Sophie Mackintosh is the author of two novels, The Water Cure and Blue Ticket. Her first novel was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 and won a Betty Trask Award 2019. She has also won the White Review Short Story Prize and the Virago/Stylist Short Story Competition, and has been published in Granta, The White Review and TANK magazine among others. She is now working on her third novel.