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020 _a9780571338757
082 _a823
_bBUR/MI
100 _a Burns, Anna
245 _aMilkman
260 _aLON
_bFaber & Faber
_c2018
300 _a348p.
520 _aIn 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 consequence
650 _aEnglish Fiction
942 _cBK
999 _c12412
_d12411