Milkman

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE



WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD



'Utterly compelling' Irish Times

'Original, funny, disarmingly oblique' CLAIRE KILROY

'A triumph.' Guardian





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 . . .



SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE



SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION



Anna Burns was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is the author of two previous novels, No Bones and Little Constructions, and of the novella Mostly Hero. No Bones won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Milkman has, to date, won the Man Booker Prize 2018, the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and the International Dublin Literary Award 2020, and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize and the Rathbone's Folio Prize.

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018



Milkman is extraordinary. I've been reading passages aloud for the pleasure of hearing it. It's frightening, hilarious, wily and joyous all at the same time. - Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies



This beautiful and painful novel by Orange Prize shortlisted Anna Burns blends shades of early Edna O'Brien with Eimear McBride's exquisite ability to capture voice.