Winner of International Dublin Literary Award 2020
Winner of Man Booker Prize 2018
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction
Shortlisted for The Womens prize for Fiction 2019
Shortlisted for The Rathbones Folio Prize
In an unnamed city, where to be interesting is dangerous, an eighteen-year-old woman has attracted the unwanted and unavoidable attention of a powerful and frightening older man, 'Milkman'. In this community, where suggestions quickly become fact, where gossip and hearsay can lead to terrible consequences, what can she do to stop a rumour once it has started? Milkman is persistent, the word is spreading, and she is no longer in control
