TY - BOOK AU - Mackintosh,Sophie TI - The Water Cure : a Novel SN - 9780385543873 AV - PR6113.A26493 W38 2018 U1 - 823/.92 23 PY - 2018///] CY - New York PB - Doubleday KW - Island life KW - Fiction KW - Sisters KW - Dystopias KW - Social isolations KW - Sex role KW - Women KW - Islands KW - Crimes against KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Fathers and daughters KW - Psychological fiction KW - lcgft KW - Dystopian fiction N2 - "King has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters, Grace, Lia, and Sky. He has lain the barbed wire; he has anchored the buoys in the water; he has marked out a clear message: do not enter. Or, viewed from another angle: not safe to leave. Here women are protected from the chaos and violence of men on the mainland. The cult-like rituals and therapies they endure fortify them from the spreading toxicity of a degrading world"--Provided by publisher ER -