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
