SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016
Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power - from the Man Booker shortlisted author of Swimming Home
Two women arrive in a village on the Spanish coast. Rose is suffering from a strange illness andher doctors are mystified. Her daughter Sofia has brought her here to find a cure with the infamous and controversial Dr Gomez - a man of questionable methods and motives. Intoxicated by thick heat and the seductive people who move through it, both women begin to see their lives clearly for the first time in years.
Through the opposing figures of mother and daughter, Deborah Levy explores the strange and monstrous nature of womanhood. Dreamlike and utterly compulsive, Hot Milk is a delirious fairy tale of feminine potency, a story both modern and timeless.
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'Dreamlike [and] perfectly crafted... Reading it is to be under a spell. Reaching the end is like finding a piece of glass on the beach, that can be held up and looked into and kept, in secret, to be looked at again and again' Independent on Sunday
'A hot Attic sun glares down on Levy's novel, imbuing her mere mortals with a mythic dimension and exposing the monsters within. Maternal hysteria here is more toxic to a daughter who struggles to leave home and become woman than the floating medusas that choke the sea. Only Elena Ferrante writes of the seepages of illness and woman's identity in the family with equal insight. But Levy's prose is gleeful and punctuated by a scabrous wit. As gripping as it is illuminating, funny, and unputdownable, Hot Milk is a novel by a writer at the peak of her talents' Lisa Appignanesi
'Propulsive, disturbing, dreamlike... This feverish coming-of-age novel confirms the resurgence of its singular author' Daily Telegraph
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