Blue Ticket
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2.0 • 2 Ratings
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- £7.99
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
Brought to you by Penguin.
Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Water Cure
RECOMMENDED READING FOR 2020 by Stylist, Evening Standard, Esquire, Red, Daily Mail, Oprah Magazine, LitHub, and Emma Roberts's Belletrist Book Club
'The cool intensity and strange beauty of Blue Ticket is a wonder - be sure to read everything Sophie Mackintosh writes' Deborah Levy, author of Hot Milk
'Definitely don't miss the return of Sophie Mackintosh... She's amazing' Stylist, Best Reads of Autumn 2020
Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you children. A blue ticket grants you freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. And, once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back.
But what if the life you're given is the wrong one?
Blue Ticket is a devastating enquiry into free will and the fraught space of motherhood. Bold and chilling, it pushes beneath the skin of female identity and patriarchal violence, to the point where human longing meets our animal bodies.
'Dreamlike, tense, compelling, [with] a pitch-perfect ending' The New York Times
'Gripping, ethereal, atmospheric' Sunday Times
'Thoughtful and haunting' Observer
'Terrifying and enchanting in equal measure' LitHub
'Blue Ticket will worms its way under your skin and haunt your dreams' Red
© Sophie Mackintosh 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Customer Reviews
Men want to control women - groundbreaking
I enjoyed this book, but it’s not one I would recommend to anyone, especially not if you’re interested in Atwood-style dystopia fiction. There was absolutely no world building - why did the women need to pick a white/blue ticket? Is it because of overpopulation? Was there a build up to this? Why do they have to go into the city via this badly explained, murky journey that is apparently life threatening but the whole country has accepted that young girls just have to do this? Why?
Also, the main character was loathsome, you felt little sympathy for her journey. And unlike The Handmaid’s Tale, she was an entirely selfish journey, she wasn’t trying to change the system or actually help any other woman in her situation.
It’s a fine book if you’re in the supermarket and happen to pick it up. But there’s no new ideas and it’s poorly thought out. I won’t be in a rush to read more by Sophie Mackintosh.