![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel is structured around milkman’s appearances. Her family are all designated according to where they come in the family and other characters are known as, for example, maybe boyfriend or longest friend. She’s known as middle sister/ middle daughter or maybe girlfriend, depending on who she’s with. The narrator doesn’t know why he’s called milkman-though the reader might pick up a hint later on- but we learn that he’s a renouncer of the state and so a member of the powerful group which runs and controls the community. He’s 41 and the protagonist narrator is 18- all this is told us on the first page. They come to believe that she’s milkman’s girlfriend and as this rumour develops, the community, its day to day existence and accommodations, are laid out before us in a cast of characters both wittily and chillingly portrayed. She’s being stalked in Northern Ireland in the seventies at the height of the Troubles, and not just by the eponymous milkman but eventually by the whole community too. Milkman, the brilliant deserved winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018, is a book about a young 18 year woman who’s being stalked. ![]()
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