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WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDA SUNDAY TIMES TOP 25 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY'Utterly compelling' Irish Times'Original, funny, disarmingly oblique' CLAIRE KILROY'A triumph.' GuardianIn 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 PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTIONAnna Burns' book 'Milkman' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2018-12-31, 2018-01-07