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The 2018 Booker winner, this book was certainly deserving. Set in the 1970s in Northern Ireland, it follows an 18-year old girl through her life and thoughts. The Woolfesque stream of consciousness really works, and Burns even switches timelines seemlessly and compellingly in telling the story, providing the backstory, and linking up anecdotes, to give us an amazing insight not only into this girl, but the presumed life in N. Ireland at the time for anyone who wasn't deliberately political or engaged with political acts themselves. The take on ascribed actions, and how ones choices affects perceptions apart from and in little relation to our own thoughts, choices, assumptions and intentions is very interesting, and delineated in an 'obvious' fashion through the eyes of a young girl who wants nothing to do with any of it. Hard to put down - even in a story rampant with violence (little of it described in detail) and death.

One of my daughters gave me Milkman for my birthday so I am going to read it as part of the challenge. Which prompt did you read it for? I am toying with the idea of reading it for week 7 and finding another book about the troubles in N I for week 8 but haven't settled on that yet.

I read it for a challenge in 2018 (book published in 2018). I finished it New Year’s Eve, but just got around to posting.

It won the Man Booker prize for 2018 so I used it for the first task. It’s wonderful!