Jessica Andrews – Milk Teeth

We're looking forward to welcoming Jessica Andrews to the shop on Monday 25th July at 7pm. She will be discussing her new novel, Milk Teeth, in a 'live from the bookshop' event with fellow writer, Fiona Mozley.

We are planning for this event to take place in the bookshop with an in-person audience, as well as a livestream for attendees watching from home.

Livestream vouchers are valid until the day after the event and can be used on the website against the price of Milk Teeth or Saltwater. In-person vouchers can be used on the night of the event against anything in the bookshop – we will have a list of attendee vouchers at the ready.

About Milk Teeth:

A girl grows up in the north-east of England amid scarcity, precarity and a toxic culture of bodily shame, certain that she must make herself ever smaller to be loved. Years later, living in tiny rented rooms and working in noisy bars across London and Paris, she fights to create her own life.

She meets someone who cracks her open and offers her 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 faces the possibility of a different existence, and must choose what to hold on to from her past.

How do we learn to take up space? Why might we deny ourselves good things? 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.

Jessica Andrews grew up in Sunderland. She writes for the Guardian, the Independent, BBC Radio 4, Stylist and ELLE magazine, among others. Her debut novel, Saltwater, won the Portico Prize in 2020. She co-runs The Grapevine, a magazine which aims to give a platform to under-represented writers and co-presents literary podcast Tender Buttons. She lives in Bristol and teaches Creative Writing at Roehampton University.

Fiona Mozley is the author of two novels, Elmet and Hot Stew, and several short stories. She is the winner of a Somerset Maugham Award and The Polari Prize, has been shortlisted for The Booker Prize, The Ondaatje Prize, and The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and The Women's Prize. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The Financial Times, The New Statesman and British Vogue. She lives in Edinburgh.

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