“Milk Fever is a sensuous and subversive novel, set at a time when printed books were beginning to change the world. Lissa M. Cowan draws together motherhood, breastfeeding and learning, and sets them centre stage in a story about the struggle for freedom, justice and reason: abstractions which here come to full, fleshy life.”
– Kathy Page, author of The Find

“Lissa M. Cowan’s Milk Fever is irresistible. The story hums along with possibility, both for the peasants of 18th century Franceand Céleste, the wild and clever servant girl who risks her life for her protectress, a wet nurse with seemingly magical milk. Anything can happen in these pages: revolution, love, mysticism, even betrayal. Cowan gracefully moves from a rioting crowd to a small bookshop, from the King’s court to a small village in the mountains, and in this way reveals her remarkable talent in shining a light on worlds big and small.”
– Jen Sookfong Lee, Canadian broadcaster and author of The Better Mother