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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Drinking water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh, read by Hannah Murray, Gemma Whelan and Morfydd Clark.

Once upon a time, damaged females came here to become cured. We took them in, fed them glasses of our about WATER Treat: LONGLISTED FOR THE PERSON BOOKER Reward 2018 clean, great water, allow them scream on the waves till their lips split like ripe fruits. Now no-one is remaining but my sisters and me. King died this past year, quite suddenly. Mother has vanished, no one knows where. And the secure compound they constructed around us, a long way away from the poisonous world, provides finally been breached.

Three men arrived the other day, washed up by the ocean, their gazes hungry and insistent. We remember now what our father trained us. ‘If the males come for you, present yourself some mercy. Don’t hang in there and await them to put you out of the misery.’

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