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Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Gaby Wood

Hot Milk

Hay Festival 2025, 

Exploring the art of literary collaboration, director and screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Gaby Wood, chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation, discuss taking Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk from book to screen.

The adaptation by Lenkiewicz of Levy’s Booker-shortlisted novel of the same name follows Rose (played by Fiona Shaw) and her daughter Sofia (Emma Mackey), as they wrestle with co-dependency and desire by the Spanish seaside.

This event is a collaboration between MUBI and the London Review of Books.

Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Gaby Wood