With her blue ticket, Calla has the freedom to drink, party and sleep around, and she spends her twenties making the most of this lifestyle.
White-ticket girls are protected from this journey, but then essentially forced into having children (we meet one white-ticket woman who has been punished for aborting her child).
Blue-ticket girls must undertake a gruelling, dangerous journey on foot to reach the city. The narrator, Calla, lives in a world where girls – but not boys – are assigned a kind of lottery ticket on the day they hit puberty: white for a life rearing children in the countryside, blue for an IUD and a job in the city. This is the scenario Sophie Mackintosh constructs in her second novel, Blue Ticket. What if you weren’t allowed to have children? What if the choice, even the ability, to get pregnant was forcibly taken away from you at the age of fourteen? Would you feel oppressed, or relieved?
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