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Title
Author
Burns, Anna, 1962- author.
Pub Date:
2019
Call No.
BURNS
Format
Large print
Summary
Set in an un-named city but with an astonishing, breath-shorteningly palpable sense of time and place Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. The story of inaction with enormous consequences and decisions that are never made, but for which people are judged and punished. Middle sister is our protagonist. She is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her nearly-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with milkman (which she herself for the life of her cannot work out how it came about). But when first brother-in-law, who of course had sniffed it out, told his wife, her first sister, to tell her mother to come and have a talk with her, 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...
ISBN
9781432863296
Title
Author
Burns, Anna, 1962- author. Brennan, Brid, 1955- narrator.
Pub Date:
2018
Electronic Access:
Call No.
BURNS
Format
Audio disc
Summary
Centered on the Irish Troubles, this novel is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is a story of inaction with enormous consequences.
ISBN
9781974932054
UPC
9781974932054
Title
Author
Burns, Anna, 1962- author.
Pub Date:
2018
Call No.
BURNS
Format
Books
Summary
In Northern Ireland during the Troubles of the 1970s, an unnamed narrator finds herself targeted by a high-ranking dissident known as Milkman.
ISBN
9781644450000
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