Milkman is about an 18-year-old girl whose rumoured but ultimately imagined affair with the mysterious and widely disliked Milkman, shines a light of the severity of the political "troubles" prevalent in Northen Ireland during the seventies.

Middle sister, the protagonist, is from a small town with a small community that likes to gossip about and shun those who don't conform to traditional and widely accepted cultural norms. And so she finds herself at the mercy of her community when a "Milkman" a so-called Renouncer of the state, suddenly takes an interest to her, which together with her 'perverse' habit of reading whilst walking has the community talking and more dangerous figures watching..

I listened to the Milkman audiobook, published by Clipper Audio Books and narrated by Brid Brennan. Unfortunately the audiobook was a trial trialsome, cumbersome listen that I wanted to DNF on more than one occasion. After listening to this book, I've come to the conclusion that reading it as opposed to listening to it would've produced a better impression as I do feel like the writing was cleverly and wittily composed. However, this book takes every expression, every word uttered, every hand gesture, practically every item (animate or inanimate) and puts it under a massive political microscope that is dissected so thoroughly so that all possible angles are examined to the point where I found it hard to maintain focus or interest.