The Colour of Milk is a literary tour de force of power, class, and fate, told in the fierce, urgent voice of the irrepressible Mary, a character as indelible as The Color Purples Celie and Margaret Atwoods eponymous Alias Grace.Set in England in 1830, The Colour of Milk by Nell Leyshon is an emotionally haunting work of historical fiction hailed as charming, Bront-esque...and hard to forget (Marian Keyes) about an illiterate farm girls emotional and intellectual awakening and its devastating ...