Hot Milk by Deborah Levy

Hot Milk by Deborah LevyShortlisted 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

envy and grievance

and the price of forgiveness

Divorced and unemployed

Bruce found himself at the centre of a national debate that often focussed on the wrong part of the story

and who suggested the book

and her present

Inspired by research into her own family history

the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale

Davidson emerges as an extraordinarily courageous heroine driven by a love of Australia's landscape

a judge in a downtown court

and with the police

On the outside