Milk and Honey

Rupi Kaur's bestselling debut collection of poetry and illustrations about violence, abuse, love, loss and femininity, divided into four chapters: the hurting, the loving, the breaking and the healing.

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Emma Watson: “I will be forever grateful that she took subjects, that as a woman, I still carry shame about, and made them art. It took me an extra step forward and gave me new language.”
Shane Parrish: “I feel like I’m the outsider when it comes to poetry. I remember sitting in English class in University and listening to the professor interpret the author in such a way that I’d often think I read the wrong poem. Every now and then, however, I pick up a poetry book and it just gets me.”