Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay. The story of inaction with enormous consequences and decisions that are never made, but for which people are judged and punished. Middle sister is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her nearly-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with milkman. But when first brother-in-law, who of course had sniffed it out, told his wife, to tell her mother, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be... Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018