Hot Milk by Deborah Levy - ISBN: 9780241968031
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Spanish coast, female sexuality, strange illness, monstrous womanhood, a hot cure.
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    224 pages

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    29 May 2017

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Summary

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016, a hypnotic tale of female sexuality, power and myth from the author of Swimming Home.

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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241968031
ISBN-10:0241968038
Author:Deborah Levy
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:29 May 2017
Weight:146g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 17mm
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Critics Review

Unsettling, challenging and gloriously written, Hot Milk by Deborah Levy is the multi-generational story of a hallucinatory sort of summer * Juliet Nicolson, Evening Standard *Leaves the reader enraptured and unnerved * Jackie Annesley, Evening Standard *Publisher’s 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 *A unique atmosphere, the dense dreamscape of echoes and repetitions ensure its peculiar lasting power * Sunday Times *Astute, poetic and wise, Hot Milk confirms Deborah Levy’s reputation as a master of the contemporary psychological novel – Darian Leader, author of ‘What Is Madness?’A fizzing combination of the fantastical and the mundane * Guardian *Perfectly crafted, a dream-narrative so mesmerising that 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 smart, seductive and utterly beguiling read * Mail on Sunday *Hypnotic… this novel has a transfixing gaze and a terrible sting that burns long after the final page is turned * Observer *

About The Author

Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy is the author of several novels including August Blue, Hot Milk and Swimming Home, alongside a formally innovative, critically acclaimed ‘living autobiography’ trilogy- Things I Don’t Want to Know, The Cost of Living and Real Estate. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and Booker Prize and won the Prix Femina Etranger. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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