Mary and her three sisters rise every day to backbreaking farm
work that threatens to suppress their own awakening desires,
whether it's Violet's pull toward womanhood or Beatrice's affinity
for the Scriptures. But it's their father, whose anger is unleashed
at the slightest provocation, who stands to deliver the most harm.
Only Mary, fierce of tongue and a spitfire since birth, dares to
stand up to him. When he sends her to work for the local vicar and
his invalid wife in their house on the hill, he deals her the only
blow she may not survive.
Within walking distance of her own family farm, the vicarage is
a world away-a curious, unsettling place unlike any she has known.
Teeming with the sexuality of the vicar's young son and the
manipulations of another servant, it is also a place of books and
learning-a source of endless joy. Yet as young Mary soon discovers,
such precious knowledge comes with a devastating price as it is
made gradually clear once she begins the task of telling her own
story.
Reminiscent of Alias Grace in the exploration of the power
dynamics between servants and those they serve and The Color
Purple's Celie, The Colour of Milk is a quietly devastating tour de
force that reminds us that knowledge can destroy even as it
empowers.
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