There she is handed either a blue or a white ticket.
The Water Cure was a kind of Dogtooth for the #MeToo movement, and now her second novel, Blue Ticket takes a look at the right to choose, filtered through a brutal dystopian lens.Ĭalla reports to the lottery station on the first day of her period. Sophie Mackintosh’s debut novel The Water Cure took the tropes of dystopian fiction and turned them into something quite remarkable, a story of a family living in exile on an island, after a plague of toxic masculinity destroyed the rest of the world.
by Angela Chadwick not Rian Hughes), Red Clocks, Vox, and even a sequel to the beloved The Handmaid’s Tale continues to bring us brilliant fiction. It is a haunting exploration of what it means to have free will, while inhabiting a female body.īlue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh is published by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, and is available in hardback, paperback, ebook, and audiobook format.The wave of feminist-centred dystopian novels, which seems to have resurfaced with the publication of Naomi Alderman’s terrific The Power, and continued through the years with books like XX (ed. It is about the devastating effects of patriarchal violence. The story is told from Calla’s point of view, so it makes sense to me that she may not have all the facts either.īlue Ticket is about motherhood and identity. Not having all the facts is something I enjoy in dystopian fiction, but I know some people would prefer more world building. How exactly the dystopian world of Blue Ticket came to be is left up the reader’s imagination. Sophie Mackintosh does not spoon feed her reader. At least they have given her a head start! Consequences that include trying to outrun the powers that be. In rejecting the life planned out for her, Calla must face the consequences. What if the tickets weren’t a thing and she could choose for herself whether or not to start a family? Yet, here she is wondering what her life would be like if she had been given a different ticket. The decision is made for you and there is no changing the colour of your ticket.Ĭalla knew this would be the case. The other means you will not become a mother. One ticket sets you on the path to motherhood and marriage.
They either receive a white ticket or a blue ticket. When girls have their first period they are divided into one of two categories.
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