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Hot Milk

The Booker Prize-shortlisted novel from the author of Swimming Home

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Hot Milk

By: Deborah Levy
Narrated by: Romola Garai
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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

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Hot Milk by Deborah Levy, read by Romola Garai.

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.

Coming of Age Genre Fiction Women's Fiction
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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
On the sun-bleached coast of Almería, southern Spain, Sofia and her mother have arrived in search of a cure to an illness which has mystified doctors. This simmering, hypnotic story, adapted into a film starring Emma Mackie, shows just what a trip abroad can reveal
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