Milk Teeth

'Jessica Andrews's first novel, Saltwater, was wonderful. The follow-up, Milk Teeth, is even better' Alex Preston, Observer

'Unusually raw... so honest and hopeful' Financial Times

A lush and intimate love story from the award-winning author of Saltwater

A girl grows up in the north-east of England, 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 cracks her open and offers a new way to experience the world. But when he invites her to join him in Barcelona, the promise of pleasure and care makes her uneasy. In the shimmering heat of the Mediterranean, she must find out if she can change.

Why might we deny ourselves good things? How do we learn to take up space? Milk Teeth is a story of desire and the body, shame and joy. In vivid and lyrical prose, and with deep compassion, Jessica Andrews examines what it means to allow ourselves to live.


'Addictive, immediate, brilliant' Helen Mort

'Milk Teeth spills over with care, truth and desire' Yara Rodrigues Fowler

'A sharp and beguiling love story... Milk Teeth is a transporting, gorgeous novel' Independent