Hot Milk

Unsettling, challenging and gloriously written , Hot Milk by Deborah Levy is the multi-generational story of a hallucinatory sort of summer

Unsettling, challenging and gloriously written , Hot Milk by Deborah Levy is the multi-generational story of a hallucinatory sort of summer

Leaves the reader enraptured and unnerved

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.

A unique atmosphere, the dense dreamscape of echoes and repetitions ensure its peculiar lasting power

Astute, poetic and wise, Hot Milk confirms Deborah Levy's reputation as a master of the contemporary psychological novel

A fizzing combination of the fantastical and the mundane

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.

A smart, seductive and utterly beguiling read

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

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.