Milkman

A triumph of voice . . . darkly hilarious. — Justine Jordan ― 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. — Claire Kilroy ― Guardian

Anna Burns is part of a movement of new and established female Belfast writers… along with Lucy Caldwell, Roisín 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. — Adrian McKinty ― Irish Times

A darkly funny novel about Seventies Belfast that leaves words ominously unspoken. — Cal Revely-Calder ― Daily Telegraph

Milkman is delivered in a breathless, hectic, glorious torrent.The pace doesn’t let up for a single moment . . . Apotent 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. — Eoin McNamee

Anna Burns was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is the author of three novels – No Bones,Little Constructions, and Milkman – 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.