![]() Milkman has been called “experimental”, but its occasional departures from novelistic convention hardly qualify it for that label. ![]() Alongside its urgency and anger, it is also very, very funny, shot through with a biting, sometimes rather batty, wit that lets light filter into its otherwise dark matter. ![]() But it is engrossing, a book that engulfs you and keeps you held and mesmerised. It is true that Milkman is not exactly a walk in the park – its scenery is too wild and intense for that. Be reassured: reading Milkman is absolutely nothing like taking a walk up Snowdon – a feat of endurance for which, I gather, a torch, compass and a first-aid kit are recommended. ![]() But potential readers, politicians or not, would do well to ignore the somewhat off-putting remarks made by the chair of the judges, philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, who, commenting on whether it was a “difficult” novel, compared the experience of reading it to taking “a walk up Snowdon”. All of which might make Milkman sound rather worthy. ![]()
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