Milkman

Summary

In an unnamed city closely resembling 1970s Belfast, an eighteen-year-old known only as 'middle sister' is pursued by an older paramilitary figure whose attentions trap her inside the rumours of her own community. Burns avoids proper names and relies on a long, looping interior voice that captures how surveillance and gossip thicken the air of a divided society. The novel is funny, claustrophobic, and formally singular.