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 novel Daily Telegraph A triumph of storytelling Literary Review_________________________________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._________________________________Perfectly crafted. So mesmerising that reading it is to be under a spell Independent on Sunday Hot Milk treads a sweaty sun-drenched path into the history books. A properly great novel Romola Garai Hot Milk is an extraordinary novel beautifully rich vividly atmospheric and psychologically complex... Every man and woman should read it Bernardine Evaristo Hypnotic... This novel has a transfixing gaze and a terrible sting that burns long after the final page is turned Observer Terrific sizzling with heat and sexuality . . . You devour it in one sitting Radio Times Review Unsettling challenging and gloriously writtenHot Milk by Deborah Levy isthe multi-generational story of a hallucinatory sort of summer ―Juliet Nicolson Evening StandardLeaves the reader enraptured and unnerved ―Jackie Annesley Evening StandardPublishers description. Shortlisted for the Man Booker and Goldsmiths prizes a hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power under the scorching midday sun. Sofia and her mother arrive on the Spanish coast looking for answers - what they find there will be strange seductive and fearsome beyond their wildest dreams. ―Penguin About the Author Deborah Levy is the author of seven novels: Beautiful Mutants Swallowing Geography The Unloved Billy and Girl Swimming Home Hot Milk and The Man Who Saw Everything. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Man Booker Prize. Her short story collection Black Vodka was nominated for the International Frank OConnor Short Story Award and was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as were her acclaimed dramatizations of Freuds iconic case studies Dora and The Wolfman. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and her pioneering theatre writing is collected in Levy: Plays 1. Her work is widely translated.Deborah Levy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is also the author of a formally innovative and emotionally daring trilogy of memoirs a living autobiography on writing gender politics and philosophy. The first two volumes Things I Dont Want to Know and The Cost of Living won the Prix Femina Etranger 2020. The final volume Real Estate will be published in Spring 2021.