Milkman by Anna Burns
Description
In 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 consequences.
This book will be discussed at our meeting on 21 July 2025
Coming soon to the Burton Book Club…
- The List of Suspicious Things, Jennie Godfrey
- The Little Shop of Found Things, Paula Brackston
- The Glassmaker, Tracy Chevalier
- in this month we each read a different title by Jane Austen in celebration of 250 years since her birth. Take your pick from: Sense and Sensibility | Pride and Prejudice | Mansfield Park | Emma | Northanger Abbey | Persuasion | or one of her unfinished novels or the novella
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