Milkman

BOOK OF THE YEAR in the GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDARD. FT and DAILY TELEGRAPH In an unnamed city, where to be interesting is dangerous, an eighteen-year-old woman has attracted the unwanted and unavoidable attention of a powerful and frightening older man, 'Milkman' In this community, where suggestions quickly become fact, where gossip and hearsay can lead to terrible consequences, what can she do to stop a rumour once it has started? Milkman is persistent, the word is spreading, and she is no longer in control