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Cursed bread, Sophie Mackintosh

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fiction

Cursed bread

Sophie Mackintosh

In 1951, still reeling in the aftermath of the deadliest war the world had ever seen, the small French town of Pont-Saint-Esprit succumbed to a mass poisoning. The poison induced hysteria, violent and euphoric hallucinations and many deaths. In the years before the disaster, there lived in the town a woman named Elodie. She was the baker's wife, a plain, unremarkable person who yearned to transcend her dull existence. So when a charismatic new couple arrived in town, Elodie quickly fell under their glamorous spell. Thus began a dangerous game of cat and mouse, the intoxication of the chase slowly seeping into everything but who was the predator and on whom did they prey?