Milk Teeth by Jessica Andrews

Milk Teeth by Jessica AndrewsFrom 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 highly personal and reflective memoir

'Inspiring

knee-jerk reactions and harmful behaviours that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse

In a sequence like 'The Tollund Man in Springtime' and in several poems which 'do the rounds of the district' - its known roads and rivers and trees

Fizzles and Residua

This was never the story of one woman

or newt pie and pigtail pudding with ogres

examining the nature of our extraordinary species and imagining what lies beyond our known world

it has also generated numerous operas

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller

moving meditation on loss

Stupidity is all around us