# The Colour of Milk

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- Book: [The Colour of Milk](https://www.bookquiver.com/nell-leyshon/the-colour-of-milk) ([The Colour of Milk.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nell-leyshon/the-colour-of-milk.md))
- Authors: [Nell Leyshon](https://www.bookquiver.com/nell-leyshon)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4195-954-1
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2013-05-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'in this year of our lord eighteen hundred and thirty one i am reached the age of fifteen. i am not very tall and my hair is the colour of milk. my name is mary and i have learned to spell it. m. a. r. y. i want to tell you what it is that happened but i must be ware not to rush at it like heifers at the gate for if i do that i will get ahead of my self so quick that i will trip and fall and anyway you will want me to start where a person ought to. and that is at the beginning . . .' This is the tale of Mary, a simple farm girl, sent to care for the vicar's invalid wife but who discovers wonders in words - and terrors in life.