Breaking MilkSet on a farm in the Eastern Cape, and taking place over one day, the novel is a wrought meditation on motherhood and our destructive relationship to the Earth. A former geneticist, Kate is now an award winning maker of organic cheese. She relies on the farm's routine to hold steady as her day teeters on a knife's edge: her estranged daughter is in London, waiting for her conjoined twins to survive surgery. Meanwhile, Kate's employee Nosisi's son is

having already produced a book on Hank Mobley for Northway

a painting by Breughel

Upon discovering their shared rhythms and unexpected connections – the sea

but now it’s all come true

Hameady Hamood and Mona al-Shammari

illnesses can be inescapably evident or painfully invisible

husked with sunlight

The encounter that she orchestrates between Dante

thanks to her indomitable spirit

Elena Lazutkina

” — Rebecca West

A novel impossible to put down