Mar 2, 2023 · Audacious and mesmerising, Cursed Bread is a fevered confession, an entry into memory’s hall of mirrors, and an erotic fable of transformation. Sophie Mackintosh spins a …

Mar 19, 2024 · Audacious and mesmerizing, Cursed Bread is a fevered confession, an entry into memory’s hall of mirrors, and an erotic fable of transformation. Sophie Mackintosh spins a …

Mar 6, 2023 · A foodborne illness was suspected, and investigations honed in on the town’s bakery – it was said to be a case of pain maudit, or “cursed bread”. Anyone who has read …

Jan 11, 2024 · Four people meet in a small French town: the baker and his wife; the ambassador and his wife. Two belong to the town, two are outsiders. Some time later, strange things start …

Audacious and mesmerizing, Cursed Bread is a fevered confession, an entry into memory’s hall of mirrors, and an erotic fable of transformation. Sophie Mackintosh spins a darkly gleaming tale …

Apr 4, 2023 · Written in 1941 and '42, between Wright’s classics Native Son and Black Boy, this short novel concerns Fred Daniels, a modest laborer who’s arrested by police officers and …

Audacious and mesmerising, Cursed Bread is a fevered confession, an entry into memory's hall of mirrors, a fable of obsession and transformation. Sophie Mackintosh...

Apr 4, 2023 · The following is from Sophie Mackintosh's Cursed Bread. Mackintosh is the author of Blue Ticket and The Water Cure, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her fiction, …

Apr 4, 2023 · Audacious and mesmerizing, Cursed Bread is a fevered confession, an entry into memory’s hall of mirrors, and an erotic fable of transformation. Sophie Mackintosh spins a …

Sep 6, 2023 · The baker’s wife becomes infatuated with a new woman in town as a mysterious illness spreads. The narrator and protagonist of Cursed Bread is the town’s baker’s wife, …