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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
‘Proof that people want to read stimulating novels that make them see the world differently.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘If Beckett had written a prose poem . . it would read a lot like this.’ DAILY MAIL
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 . . .
Anna Burns’ book ‘Milkman’ was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2018-12-31, 2018-01-07
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A triumph of voice . . . darkly hilarious.
Guardian BOOKS OF THE YEAR
The narrator of Milkman disrupts the status quo not through being political, heroic or violently opposed, but because she is original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique: different. The same can be said of this book.
Guardian
Anna Burns is part of a movement of new and established female Belfast writers… along with Lucy Caldwell, Rois�n O'Donnell, Jan Carson and others . . . It is an impressive, wordy, often funny book and confirms Anna Burns as one of our rising literary stars.
Irish Times
A darkly funny novel about Seventies Belfast that leaves words ominously unspoken.
Daily Telegraph
Milkman is delivered in a breathless, hectic, glorious torrent. The pace doesn't let up for a single moment . . . A potent and urgent book, with more than a hint of barely contained fury.
Irish Independent
Profound, punchy, powerful prose… A tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness, it's thought-provoking stuff.
Sunday Telegraph, STELLA, Stella Loves
Mercurial. Profound. Hilarious. Brilliant. I've been waiting for a book like this for thirty years.
Original and thought-provoking . . . Burns ingeniously draws comparisons between the hypocrisies and injustices of a sectarian society and the troubled and misunderstood experience of female adolescence. That she successfully tackles her serious mission with razor sharp wit, warm humour and great compassion is even more impressive. This one's a keeper.
Big Issue
Milkman is remarkable. A tale told by a voice that's utterly compelling and which you read with the feeling that you're being led down the darkest of rabbit holes. Irresistible and disturbing.
Jess Kidd
Incredible . . . Anna Burns brilliantly mines the interstices of language to give articulation to the slippery machinations of prejudice and intimidation . . . Her writing is uncompromising, powerful, essential.
Michele Forbes, author of Ghost Moth
Utterly brilliant – a once-in-a-generation novel.
I can't remember the last time I read prose so profound and so punchy, at once scattergun and forensic. It's like the ink's been made from gunpowder. And every line leaves a darkly sparkling residue you won't be able to wash off.
Helen Brown, on Little Constructions
A masterclass in technique, Burns' powerful, disturbing book is not for anyone who prefers their reading cosy or comforting.
Irish Times, on No Bones
Told in a glorious rush of words, it's funny, desperate and compulsively readable.
Sunday Express
Darkly comic . . . The jokes, like the plot, come out viciously askew.
Telegraph
