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Shortlisted for the Man Booker, Deborah Levy tells a hypnotic tale of female sexuality, power and myth. Two women arrive in a village on the Spanish coast. Rose is suffering from a strange illness. Her daughter Sofia has brought her here to find a cure. Through the opposing figures of mother and daughter, Deborah Levy explores the strange and monstrous nature of womanhood.

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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

´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 . . .´

´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

´The contemporary writer I admire most´ Linda Grant

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

´Gorgeous. What makes the book so good is Levy´s great imagination, the poetry of her language, her way of finding the wonder in the everyday. It´s a pleasure´ New York Times

´Terrific, sizzling with heat and sexuality . . . You devour it in one sitting´ Radio Times

´Unmissable´ New Statesman

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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 Juliet Nicolson, Evening Standard

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Levy, Deborah
Deborah Levy is a British playwright, novelist and poet. She is the author of seven novels: Beautiful Mutants (1986); Swallowing Geography (1993); The Unloved (1994); Billy & Girl (1996); Swimming Home (2011); Hot Milk (2016) and the forthcoming The Man Who Saw Everything (2019). Swimming Home was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012; Hot Milk was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 and the Goldsmiths Prize 2016. Deborah is also the author of an acclaimed collection of short stories, Black Vodka (2013), and two ´living autobiographies´, Things I Don´t Want To Know and The Cost of Living. She has written for the Royal Shakespeare Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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