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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION
‘Potent and urgent.’ IRISH INDEPENDENT
‘Original, funny, disarmingly oblique.’ CLAIRE KILROY
‘A triumph. . . darkly hilarious’ GUARDIAN
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman.
But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes ‘interesting’. The last thing she ever wanted to be.
Anna Burns’ book ‘Milkman’ was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2018-12-31, 2018-01-07
