GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE
NOTA BENE PRIZE 2024 From the Booker Prize-nominated author of The Water Cure comes a
chilling new feminist fable based on the true story of an unsolved mystery . . . 'A shimmering
fever-dream of a novel' Telegraph Spring 1951. 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 happening. Horses drop dead in the fields. Children grow
wild and unbiddable. Ghosts are sighted after dark. Someone is playing a dangerous game of cat
and mouse - but who is the predator and who their prey? Audacious and mesmerizing Cursed
Bread is a darkly erotic mystery about a town gripped by madness envy like poison in the blood
and desire that burns and consumes. 'A dreamy sapphic romp ' The Times 'Gauzy [and]
gripping a quietly rich maturation of Mackintosh's skill ' Guardian The Spectator Book of
the Year 2023
