Anna Burns offers a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences.

In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes ‘interesting’. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous…

Winner
The Man Booker Prize 2018
Published by
Faber & Faber
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Anna Burns

Anna Burns

About the Author

Anna Burns was born in Belfast. She is the author of three novels - No Bones, Little Constructions and Milkman - and of the novella Mostly Hero.
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