This is a book about feelings, family, sex, and Ireland--but don't tell Amelia that. She's the one growing up in the mad family, in the mad society, who doesn't want to know what's going on. But things are going on: eight-year-olds collecting very peculiar treasure; babies who might be, or might not be, bombs; schoolgirls bringing guns into schoolyards; and, of course, lots of food and bad, bad sex. If Amelia is to live she needs to change. Can she, though, in a place where people don't know how to look after themselves, and so wouldn't know how to look after one another?

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2002 - a stunning debut novel about a little girl growing up in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.

Every single night and every single day Amelia goes upstairs to look at her treasure: a miniature plastic sheep, a Black Queen chess piece, a penny prayer for serenity, a tube of glitter - and thirty-seven black rubber bullets she's collected ever since the British Army started firing them...

""Milchmann" ist stilistisch vollkommen unverwechselbar. In einem Moment beängstigend, dann wieder inspirierend. Überwältigend."
Jury des Man Booker Prize

""Milchmann" ist stilistisch vollkommen unverwechselbar. In einem Moment beängstigend, dann wieder inspirierend. Überwältigend."
Jury des Man Booker Prize

- Man Booker Prize 2018 (Fiction)
- National Book Critics Circle Award 2018 (Fiction)
- Orwell Prize 2019

"Der Tag, an dem Irgendwer McIrgendwas mir eine Waffe auf die Brust setzte, mich ein Flittchen nannte und drohte, mich zu erschießen, war auch der Tag, an dem der Milchmann...