A Q&A with Anna Burns
Anna Burns’ incredible novel Milkman was shortlisted for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction. We caught up with Anna for...
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.
Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences.
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Pat Barker
Madeline Miller
Diana Evans
Oyinkan Braithwaite
Anna Burns
Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones
Sophie van Llewyn
Madeline Miller
Akwaeke Emezi
Sarah Moss
Valeria Luiselli
Anna Burns
Oyinkan Braithwaite
Sally Rooney
Lillian Li
Diana Evans
Bernice L. McFadden
Yvonne Battle-Felton
Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
Melissa Broder
Pat Barker
Barbara Kingsolver
Ruth Ozeki
Susanna Clarke
Maggie O'Farrell
Tayari Jones
Kamila Shamsie
Naomi Alderman
Lisa McInerney
Ali Smith
Eimear McBride
A.M. Homes
Madeline Miller
Téa Obreht
Barbara Kingsolver
Marilynne Robinson
Rose Tremain
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Lionel Shriver
Andrea Levy
Valerie Martin
Ann Patchett
Kate Grenville
Linda Grant
Suzanne Berne
Carol Shields
Anne Michaels
Helen Dunmore
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