Hot Milk

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2016
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016

Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power - from the author of Swimming Home and The Man Who Saw Everything

Propulsive, uncanny, dreamlike. A feverish coming-of-age novelDaily Telegraph

A triumph of storytellingLiterary Review
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Today I dropped my laptop on the concrete floor of a bar built on the beach. My laptop has all my life in it and knows more about me than anyone else. So what I am saying is that if it is broken, so am I . . .

Two women arrive in a village on the Spanish coast. Rose is suffering from a strange illness and the 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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Perfectly crafted. So mesmerising that reading it is to be under a spellIndependent on Sunday

Hot Milk treads a sweaty, sun-drenched path into the history books. A properly great novelRomola Garai

Hot Milk is an extraordinary novel, beautifully rich, vividly atmospheric and psychologically complex... Every man and woman should read itBernardine Evaristo

Hypnotic... This novel has a transfixing gaze and a terrible sting that burns long after the final page is turnedObserver

Terrific, sizzling with heat and sexuality . . . You devour it in one sittingRadio Times