MILK Reviews

'a brave writer....takes us on an illuminating tour of shifting attitudes and practices'

'a love letter to all who have cradled an infant...the beauty of Wolfarth's story telling is hard to convey...it is a story for us all'

'it's a diverse affair, taking in everything from ancient icons of motherhood and Renaissance views of the sanctity of milk, to Victorian medical manuals and trips to the 21st-century maternity ward...'

Compassionate, compelling and beautifully told, Milk is a fascinating journey through the social, cultural and historical meanings of breastfeeding. Through her intricate, personal and tender research, Wolfarth deftly explores the human complexities of caring, nurturing and nourishing. A sublime book

-- ELINOR CLEGHORN, author of UNWELL WOMEN

Erudite, intimate and compelling, Milk is a long-overdue history of humanity's first food

-- LEAH HAZARD, author of HARD PUSHED

Sensitively drawn and full of insight, this is an intelligent and inventive new approach to a subject that should matter to all humans. Stunning.’ -- JENNIE AGG, author of LIFE, ALMOST.

Milk is a fascinating book, a rigorous and intimate study of something at once essential to life, and yet too often overlooked. Wolfarth uses breastfeeding as a lens through which to examine and critique the structures of motherhood, but it's also a text suffused with love and care, and I felt equal parts enlightened and comforted after reading it

-- MIRANDA WARD, author of ADRIFT