Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018. Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction

Shortlisted for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction. ‘Driven by voice; musical, wild, playful and furious. I was in awe of the author.’ – Sofie LagunaIn 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.