Milk Teeth

Milk Teeth
Jessica Andrews
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Trade Paperback
h234 x 153mm - 256pg
21 Jul 2022 UK
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9781473682849
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From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across England, France and Spain. A girl grows up in the north of England amid scarcity, precarity and the toxic culture of heroin chic, believing that she needs to make herself smaller to claim presence in the world. Years later, as a young woman with unattainable ideals, she meets someone who calls everything into question, and is forced to confront episodes from her past. Their relationship takes her from London to Barcelona and the precipice of a new life, full of sensuality. Yet she still feels an uneasiness. In the sticky Mediterranean heat, among tropical plants and secluded beaches, she must decide what form her adult life should take and learn how to feel deserving of love and care. Milk Teeth is a novel about the joy and terror of taking risks and a search for bodily autonomy. Through Jessica Andrews' vivid and lyrical
Jessica Andrews' s first novel, Saltwater, was wonderful. The follow-up, Milk Teeth, is even better. A story of young love and desire that' s full of the most gorgeous writing. -- Alex Preston * Fiction To Look Out For In 2022, The Observer * Addictive, immediate, brilliant. Jessica Andrews offers a profound take on the ways our bodies are policed, on class, escapism and losing yourself in others -- Helen Mort Milk Teeth spills over with care, truth and desire. Andrews makes the case for a life lived abundantly and ardently, full of sensation and pleasure, risk and safety. " -- Yara Rodrigues Fowler Heady, sweaty, sexy, salient. I devoured it -- Abigail Tarttelin Like many girls from my generation, raised on a diet of Arturo Bandini' s oranges and shiny tinned dreams of post-feminism, I have wasted too many years trying to fit into small, muted spaces. I would rather sit down to eat and think with Jessica Andrews any day: Milk Teeth is a novel about holding space, and the hard work that it takes. It is true and I am so grateful it exists. What a relief it is, finally, to step off the ledge: to choose to adventure, to give and take care. -- Livia Franchini Select Praise for Saltwater Raw, intimate and authentic . . . Andrews obviously has talent. * The Sunday Times * Luminous * Observer New Review * A stunning new voice in British literary fiction. * Independent * Andrews writes about life as we experience it in memory, melding trauma, joy and sensory half-recollections. Saltwater is a moving debut which portrays an ordinary young life in an original and refreshing way. * TLS * Saltwater revels in the possibilities of its form, using fragments to shift tone and texture, reminding us of those pivotal moments that can upend a life . . . This book holds disparate elements in a finely wrought balance that is difficult to achieve at any stage of a writing life let alone in a debut. * Kayo Chingonyi, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize * This book is sublime. It dares to be different, to look in a different way. Andrews is not filling anyone' s shoes, she is destroying the shoes and building them from scratch. * Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under * In lyric dispatches, with the condensed cadences of poetry, Andrews' novel brilliantly explores the ways we grow into and beyond the limits of ourselves, and what happens in the gaps in between who we are and who we' re expected to be. -- Andrew McMillan Milk Teeth is electrifying. It' s an exothermic novel that breathes, seethes and writhes. An intimate exploration of class, precarity, sex, power and, above all, of the fragility and exuberance of love. The prose is vivid, gorgeous and supple. It' s immediate and ultra-sensual and has the emotional pitch and intensity of the best gig you' ve ever been to. A thunderbolt of a book. -- Francesca Reece As for a new book that I' m excited about, Jessica Andrews' Milk Teeth - her follow-up to award-winning debut novel Saltwater - would have to be it. Lyrical prose, sticky Mediterranean heat and vivid descriptions make this coming-of-age story transporting, sensual and completely addictive. Themes of loneliness, belonging, identity and love - and how we' re ultimately deserving of it - will both break and warm your heart. A must for fans of Sally Rooney. * Best Holiday Reads by Roxy Kavousi-Walker, Net-a-Porter *
Jessica Andrews grew up in Sunderland. She writes for the Guardian, the Independent, BBC Radio 4, Stylist and ELLE magazine, among others. Her debut novel, Saltwater won the Portico Prize in 2020. She co-runs The Grapevine, a magazine which aims to give a platform to under-represented writers and co-presents literary podcast Tender Buttons. She lives in Bristol and teaches Creative Writing at Roehampton University.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781473682849
Published: 21 Jul 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Sceptre
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Pages: 256

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