![]() ![]() ![]() Quality of voice is all important to the experience of listening to an audiobook. I was also drawn to the question of how and why this novel seems so compelling for our time, and of how it seems so attuned to the zeitgeist of this #MeToo moment. What intrigued me most was the question of how Burns had managed to write a book which can be read both within and outside the Irish tradition. Gripped by that experience, I had begun to read the novel with focus. In the course of a long commute to work, I had listened to the remarkable audiobook of Milkman twice. ![]() But then it began to attract attention by dint of being longlisted, and then shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It was published, without a great deal of fanfare or advance publicity, in May 2018. Few contemporary novels will have had a year like Milkman by Anna Burns. ![]()
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