For millions of women around the world a thin blue line means one thing: “You’re pregnant.” Novelist Sophie Mackintosh cleverly subverts that trope in her new book, “Blue Ticket,” in which the title ...

A controlling father imposed his warped definition of female nature on his daughters in Sophie Mackintosh’s first book, “The Water Cure,” longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2018, and constraints on ...

Mackintosh’s haunting, dystopian tale (after The Water Cure) explores the emotional fallout of forced birth control in a near-future society. Once girls begin to menstruate, they go to a lottery ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. 1 It began with the allocating of luck, our bodies pinballs inside a machine. It was the year of ...

‘Blue Ticket’ is a meaningful love story with a brilliant cast, creative production and gifted direction. ‘Blue Ticket’ reminds us that silence in the face of injustice leads to furthering the ...