Like milk on the fire
Subtitle: a novel.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 1965
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
First sentence: To find a good place to dig a well, you must have quite a few people, men, to talk about it together, and a good well needs more than one man to dig it.
Description: Araminta, a young girl of 19 trying to find herself visits Tangiers to stay with her married sister. The life of  Fatima, the Moslem servant who helped bring her up as a child is juxtaposed with hers.