7/5/2023 0 Comments Book the milkman![]() ![]() Set during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, the story follows an 18-year-old girl who is harassed by an older married man known as 'the milkman' and then as 'Milkman'. ![]() “Their creative imaginings would reach my ears slander by gravitational slander. Milkman is a historical psychological fiction novel written by the Northern Irish author Anna Burns. “All this made sense within the context of our intricately coiled, overly secretive, hyper-gossipy, puritanical yet indecent, totalitarian district,” she writes. The whole town is engaged in a culturally enforced conspiracy of gaslighting. The Milkman Mike childrens book series for ages 27 years starts with a set of 4 delightful books featuring Milkman Mike, his dog called Spike and Farmer. Milkman is author Anna Burns third novel, as well as the winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize in Fiction (widely regarded as one of the most prestigious. “At the time, age eighteen,” she says, “having been brought up in a hair-trigger society where the ground rules were - if no physically violent touch was being laid upon you, and no outright verbal insults were being leveled at you, and no taunting looks in the vicinity either, then nothing was happening, so how could you be under attack from something that wasn’t there?” What’s worse, her community, even her family, assumes that she’s to blame for enticing the milkman away from his wife. But what makes him so destructive to the narrator’s mental health is that she has no vocabulary with which to resist or even describe what’s happening to her. ![]() The milkman is a character of mysterious power amid a vast network of spies, bombmakers and killers. ![]()
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