Blue Ticket: A Novel

Blue Ticket is a devastating enquiry into free will & the fraught space of motherhood.  Bold & chilling, it pushes beneath the skin of female identity & patriarchal violence, to the point where human longing meets our animal bodies.

"The cool intensity & strange beauty of Blue Ticket is a wonder - be sure to read everything Sophie Mackintosh writes."  — Deborah Levy, author of Hot Milk

Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the lottery station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you children. A blue ticket grants you freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. Or, to put it another way, you have no choice. And once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back. But what if the life you're given is the wrong one?

"[Blue Ticket] is no less relevant or incisive for its intimacy. It is as much about the tension between independence & obligation, between desire & capability, as it is about contemporary womanhood: under constant threat just for having a body, & longing to decide your own fate." — New York Times Book Review

An urgent inquiry into free will, social expectation, & the fraught space of motherhood, Blue Ticket is electrifying in its raw evocation & desire & riveting in its undeniable familiarity.