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Milkman
(Trade Paperback / Paperback, Export - Airside ed)
By Burns, Anna
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But when first brother-in-law, who of course had sniffed it out, told his wife, her first sister, to tell her mother to come and have a talk with her, middle sister becomes 'interesting'.
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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. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous. Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay ...
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This novel tracks the tragi-comic fortunes of the Lovett family of Belfast - the violent father; the shrewdly mad mother; malevolent Mick; and dreamy Amelia, our narrator, who records their antics over the years - fights, school, kickings, and the IRA and the RUC vying for Most I ...
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But when first brother-in-law, who of course had sniffed it out, told his wife, her first sister, to tell her mother to come and have a talk with her, middle sister becomes 'interesting'.
| ISBN |
9780571338764 |
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EPUB |
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Read in Browser or Adobe Ebook Compatible Device |
| Language |
en |
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15 May 2018 by Faber and Faber |
| Interest Age |
General Audience |
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Finalist for the Man Booker Prize Everything about this novel rings true . . . Original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique. --The Guardian In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French nigh ...
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A tale of a young woman growing up in a Belfast beset by the Troubles . If Amelia is to live she needs to change. Can she though? She lives in a place where: eight-year-olds collect very peculiar treasure; babies might or might not be bombs; and schoolgirls bring guns into the sc ...
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