Sophie studies everything, including her mother, who is ill and looking for a cure at the Gomez clinic in Spain.
More than once someone hints that Rose's illness is psychosomatic and that she had entrapped Sophie in her own destructive fantasies.
Levy does a great job of making Sophie, who is at war with herself, accessible and likable. Though she is 25, Sophie remains child-like and dependent upon her mother. When she meets the irrepressible Ingrid Bauer, however, things begins to shift.
Ingrid is everything Sophie is not; she's bold and selfish. She carries a secret that changes Sophie's view of her.
Sophie has been abandoned by her father at five, but it one climatic moment Sophie abandons her mother.
This is a novel for reader's who like psychological, character-driven novels.
One question. Why is it called Hot Milk?
