![]() ![]() ![]() The heat of a mediterranean summer is captured perfectly from the dusty roads, hot rocks and a transparent sea full of toxic jelly fish (medusas). Intoxicated by thick heat and the seductive people who move through it, both women begin to see their lives clearly for the first time in years. 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. Rose is suffering from a strange illness andher doctors are mystified. Sofia and her mother arrive in a village on the Spanish coast. (The first was My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout) It is also the second novel I have ever read by Deborah Levy. Hot Milk is the second book I have read in the last few weeks about the complexity of the mother daughter relationship. ![]()
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