{"product_id":"milk-teeth-9781473682825","title":"Milk Teeth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Consuming and sexy'' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Unusually raw . . . so honest and hopeful'' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e?? ?? ??\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA girl grows up in the north-east of England amid scarcity, fearing her own desires and feeling undeserving of love. Years later, living in tiny rented rooms and working in noisy bars across London and Paris, she meets someone who offers her a new way to experience the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut when he invites her to join him in Barcelona, the promise of care makes her uneasy. In the shimmering Mediterranean heat, she is faced with both pleasure and shame, and must find out if she is able to change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Addictive, immediate, brilliant'' Helen Mort\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A sharp and beguiling love story . . . \u003ci\u003eMilk Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e is a transporting, gorgeous novel'' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessica Andrews's first novel, \u003ci\u003eSaltwater\u003c\/i\u003e, was wonderful. The follow-up, \u003ci\u003eMilk Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e, is even better. A story of young love and desire that's full of the most gorgeous writing.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Alex Preston, Fiction to Look Out for in 2022 * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAddictive, immediate, brilliant\u003c\/b\u003e. Jessica Andrews offers a profound take on the ways our bodies are policed, on class, escapism and losing yourself in others -- Helen Mort\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMilk Teeth \u003c\/i\u003espills 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeady, sweaty, sexy, salient. I devoured it\u003c\/b\u003e -- Abigail Tarttelin\u003cbr\u003eLike 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: \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMilk Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about holding space, and the hard work that it takes. It is true and I am so grateful it exists\u003c\/b\u003e. What a relief it is, finally, to step off the ledge: to choose to adventure, to give and take care. -- Livia Franchini\u003cbr\u003eAndrews's sentences are like plum puddings. Rich. Satisfying. And she often uses verbs - spill, split, bleed, leaks - that suggest a messy life. Our heroine does have a messy life - don't we all - but it's presented here in a way that sees truth pouring off every page. * The Crack *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn lyric dispatches, with the condensed cadences of poetry, Andrews' novel brilliantly explores the ways we grow into and beyond the limits of ourselves\u003c\/b\u003e, and what happens in the gaps in between who we are and who we're expected to be. -- Andrew McMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMilk Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e is electrifying.\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Francesca Reece\u003cbr\u003eJessica Andrews' arresting account of obsessive young love and anxiety, \u003ci\u003eMilk Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e, more than fulfils the promise of her debut, \u003ci\u003eSaltwater\u003c\/i\u003e -- Patrick Gale, Big Writers on Their Best Reads of 2022 * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eAs for a new book that I'm excited about, Jessica Andrews' \u003ci\u003eMilk Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e - her follow-up to award-winning debut novel \u003ci\u003eSaltwater\u003c\/i\u003e - 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMilk Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e examines what it means to allow ourselves to live. * SheerLuxe *\u003cbr\u003eAcross its blissfully sprawling passages detailing scenes from different cities, what anchors the novel is its exploration of how hunger, class, desire and gender are interlaced . . . In \u003ci\u003eSaltwater\u003c\/i\u003e Andrews sought a voice that is her own, something she has truly settled into in \u003ci\u003eMilk Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e. Addressed in second person to the narrator's lover, the writing is gilded with a vulnerable immediacy, blisteringly honest and visceral. Andrews, already lauded, has come into her own. -- Miriam Balanescu * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eThere aren't many high-quality novels for adults that pay serious attention to eating disorders . . . so it's good to find Andrews writing with such precision . . . Andrews's writing style is sensual . . . consuming and sexy. -- Susie Goldsbrough * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eThis confidence in her material - in placing centre stage a young, unnamed northern woman living a precarious existence but struggling to carve out more space for herself - makes her work reminiscent of Gwendoline Riley . . . unusually raw . . . so honest and hopeful. -- Alex Peake-Tomkinson * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eAn experience akin to having the hue and saturation slider of your mind moved to maximum . . . a brilliantly hopeful book -- Wendy Erskine * Caught by the River *\u003cbr\u003eAstute, gut-wrenching...For a novel that is so sharp and often written with such linguistic utility, it isn't at all sparse. Despite these moments in which the narration is given the control that the narrator so desires, this novel is \u003ci\u003efull. \u003c\/i\u003eIn fact, fittingly, one might say it has real weight. * Lunate *\u003cbr\u003eA transporting, visceral second novel... a sizzling novel to read in the heat, when you're hungry for life. * Lucy Writers Platform *\u003cbr\u003eA sensual and languid love story. -- Sadhbh O’Sullivan * Refinery29 *\u003cbr\u003eA tide of sharply sensuous detail keeps the reader riveted as the book flows by in a series of candidly recounted episodes sustained by voice rather than plot. Andrews takes aim at the cultural pressures shaping unhealthy ideals of femininity without ever seeming to preach. -- Anthony Cummins * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eA sharp and beguiling love story . . . languid, elegantly written and dripping with a rich emotional humidity . . . \u003ci\u003eMilk Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e is a transporting, gorgeous novel * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eI liked it very much . . . the language, the prose, is very rich . . . there was a melody to it, I found myself reading passages aloud as if there was a poetry to it. -- Agnès Poirier * BBC Radio 4 Front Row *\u003cbr\u003eAndrews' prose is distinctly stylised. It possesses a heightened sensuality which reflects the protagonist's aspiration to live fiercely, \"like lightning\" - free of restraint . . . Milk Teeth possesses a highly charged and often deliberately uncomfortable intimacy. -- Michael Donkor * i *\u003cbr\u003eAndrews's lyrical prose overflows with sweet metaphors and sensuous imagery that . . . remains somehow addictive. -- Ellys Woodhouse * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eAn intimate love story . . . Lazy comparisons to Sally Rooney don't do Andrews' unique writing style justice. \u003ci\u003eMilk Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read. * Reaction.Life *\u003cbr\u003ePoignant * Daily Mail *","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867249881431,"sku":"9781473682825","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781473682825.jpg?v=1722282424","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/milk-teeth-9781473682825","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}