Milk Teeth

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Photograph: Jason Ballard/Alamy View image in fullscreen George Orwell’s former home in Wallington, Hertfordshire. An image, a dream, an idea that beguiled both of us: a magical place with chaos in its code, where our stories collided briefly. A book hasn’t tugged on my heart like this since Open Water - if you’re a fan of Open Water then I can almost guarantee you’ll adore Milk Teeth as well.

She also navigates the fear of living with regrets, making bad choices and not living up to your potential.The friendships were stupidly realistic, with drifting apart, with parties that make your eye twitch thinking about now, and with so much love and dependency. However, sentences get shorter, more restrained, when they describe her denial: ‘you reach out your hand. Books set in India are often written self-consciously, feeling the need to over-explain, or over-simplify things at different points. It explores relationships, friendship and the changing face of a city when urbanization takes over and communal disharmony sprouts up.

Comparing herself to the others she observes ‘the way they wanted so openly, without trying to hide it. it also had brilliant settings, jumping around between northern England, london, paris and barcelona when we see the different stages of our main characters life. jhol, buddhi-ka-baal, classroom is not a fish market, brun maska, and havala sounded like music to my ears.Play the 'think of which acquaintance of you does this character remind you of' with yourself through this book (a game Kartik could have come up with).