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A review by shimmery
Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh
4.0
Cursed Bread takes the mass poisoning of the French town of Pont-Saint-Esprit in 1951 and imagines the lives of the townspeople in the lead up.
Like all Mackintosh’s writing, the prose is faultless, the story embellished with beautiful and original detail.
Although I have read all 3 of her books and rated them each 4 stars, every time being greatly impressed by her writing style, I’m not sure what it is that makes her books to me ultimately a little forgettable or blurring into one another. I think the author’s strength is in writing about desire, painting internal portraits of suppressed women. This is all consuming in its power, ultimately taking over and eating away at any plot. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, and I admire her ability to capture desire on the page in the way she does, but I guess maybe books stay with me more when they go beyond the body. Not sure, will anyway continue to read whatever she writes next.
Like all Mackintosh’s writing, the prose is faultless, the story embellished with beautiful and original detail.
Although I have read all 3 of her books and rated them each 4 stars, every time being greatly impressed by her writing style, I’m not sure what it is that makes her books to me ultimately a little forgettable or blurring into one another. I think the author’s strength is in writing about desire, painting internal portraits of suppressed women. This is all consuming in its power, ultimately taking over and eating away at any plot. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, and I admire her ability to capture desire on the page in the way she does, but I guess maybe books stay with me more when they go beyond the body. Not sure, will anyway continue to read whatever she writes next.