Sophie Mackintosh has been a gem on the UK literary scene ever since the release of her 2018 debut The Water Cure; the novel was nominated for the Booker Prize when she was only in her late twenties. What’s perhaps most exciting about Mackintosh’s writing career, however, is that in a publishing world doggedly fixated by debuts, she continues to delight with her signature style and distinctive speculative worlds.
Permanence, her latest novel, is one of her sharpest yet - proof that a writer’s career only becomes more interesting to witness as time progresses. Not to mention that with a recent influx of adultery novels, we can trust in Mackintosh to give a familiar premise her own, original spin.
