Slipping into Sophie Mackintosh’s fiction is as comforting as it is disquieting. The tender consideration lavished on her characters, especially the women and girls her novels revolve around, is ...

If you eat the bread, youll die, he said. The statement made no sense, but it filled me with an electric dread. Elodie is the bakers wife. A plain, unremarkable woman, ignored by her husband and ...

In the intense but muddled latest from Mackintosh (Cursed Bread), a pent-up woman falls for a set of newcomers to her remote French village a few years after WWII. The narrator, 30-something Elodie, ...