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Summary of the Book Milkman narrates the story through the eyes of an 18-year-old girl ‘Middle Sister’ who tries to escape from the sexual advances of the ‘Milkman’- a paramilitary figure. Instead, she lands up becoming the victim of rumour mills. The tale begins with the appearance of a mysterious person named ‘Milkman’ in a white van. This character has shades of creepiness as he is already married and yet has a reputation for stalking young girls and women. He tries to offer ‘Middle Sister’ a lift in his white van which she refuses. Later, he encounters her in the park and joins her as she jogs, which sets the societal tongues wagging. This story is a stark reminder of the ongoing Me Too movement. Buy Milkman online and find out what happens next. About the Author Anna Burns is a Man Booker Prize-winning Irish author, known for her critically acclaimed books such as No Bones that dealt with a girl who grew up in Belfast during the period of Irish Troubles, Little Constructions which is a dark, comic tale of a woman from a tightly-knit family of criminals on a mission of retribution and Milkman, for which she had won the Booker Prize in 2018. She is also the winner of the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize in 2001 by the Royal Society of Literature for her debut novel.