Milk, Bread, Teeth
United Kingdom

Milk, Bread, Teeth

by Amy Twigg

Mental Health Horror Psychological Fiction 2027

Summary

Lena is consumed by a hunger she can no longer control. Alone in her luxury apartment, she gorges herself on everything from loaves of bread to cat food, while doctors dismiss her growing distress. When Joan, a glamorous actress on the brink of stardom, moves upstairs, Lena is drawn into a world of beauty, wealth, and privilege she has always desired. But as her appetite becomes increasingly grotesque, Lena’s carefully constructed identity begins to unravel. A disturbing, darkly comic body-horror novel about invisible illness, class inequality, loneliness, and the impossible expectations placed on women.

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Amy Twigg
Amy Twigg

Amy Twigg is a British novelist born and raised in Kent who now lives in Surrey. Her debut novel, Spoilt Creatures, was published in 2024 and established her as a distinctive voice in literary horror. The book won the Blue Pencil Agency Pitch Prize and was longlisted for both the agency’s First Novel Award and the Mslexia Novel Competition. In 2024, Twigg was named one of The Observer’s Best New Novelists. She studied creative writing and is an alumna of the Curtis Brown Creative novel-writing course. Her work explores unsettling aspects of women’s experiences, including desire, belonging, and the pressures of social expectations. Milk, Bread, Teeth is her second novel, drawing on themes of chronic illness, class, and insatiable desire.

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2027
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Amy Twigg