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Meet the Writers

Sophie Mackintosh

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19 March 2023

Episode 383

30 minutes


Photo: Sophie Davidson

The Welsh novelist’s debut, ‘The Water Cure’, a feminist dystopia, received critical acclaim and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Sophie sat down with Georgina Godwin to discuss how speaking Welsh has influenced her writing, writing her first stories as a child on her grandad’s computer and her latest novel ‘Cursed Bread’, a darkly sexual story about power and desire.

19 March 2023

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