Milkman - Anna Burns

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 n SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019 n SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 n SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2019 n n 'Blazing.' Daily Telegraph n n 'Outstanding.' New Statesman n n 'A triumph.' Guardian n n 'Utterly compelling.' Irish Times n n 'The best Booker winner in years.' Metro n n In an unnamed city, where to be interesting is dangerous, an eighteen-year-old woman has attracted the unwanted and unavoidable attention of a powerful and frightening older man, 'Milkman'. In this community, where suggestions quickly become fact, where gossip and hearsay can lead to terrible consequences, what can she do to stop a rumour once it has started? Milkman is persistent, the word is spreading, and she is no longer in control .

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