Milk Teeth, 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

surprisingly funny

Britain’s most intrepid

witty exploration of the nuances of a sometimes reluctant codependency

In her first work of fiction

On top of having to win a big advertising account at work it's a wonder Juliet doesn't collapse into a puddle herself

we actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma

whose misadventures in the culture wars—on both sides of the Atlantic—serve to skewer everything from family life to political correctness to the combustive collision between the personal and the political

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the immortality of the soul

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My Body marks the debut of a fierce writer brimming with courage and intelligence