Hot Milk

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

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

i Paper

What makes the book so good is Ms. Levy's great imagination, the poetry of her language [and] moving gracefully among pathos, danger and humor

New York Times

Vibrant...an intense, sun-drenched story. The prose veers dizzily between the poetic and the convoluted, spreading a hallucinatory patina of weirdness over everything. This is a writer for whom ordinary language just will not do.

The Times

So mesmerising that reading it is to be under a spell...Sex suffuses the novel, with pleasure frequently crossing into pain

Independent on Sunday

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

Elegant and deeply strange [and] hummingly funny throughout

Spectator

An extraordinary novel, beautifully rich, vividly atmospheric and psychologically complex. Every woman should read it

Bernardine Evaristo, author of MR LOVERMAN

A smart, seductive and utterly beguiling read

Mail on Sunday