![]() ![]() McConville, a widowed mother who was abducted from her Belfast home in the presence of her children, was suspected of being an informer by the paramilitary organisation. Say Nothing, by the New Yorker magazine staff writer Radden Keefe, forensically details the murder of Jean McConville by the IRA in 1972. The book, her third novel, also picked up the National Book Critics Circle award in 2019. ![]() Last year, Belfast-born Burns became the first Northern Irish author to win the Man Booker prize for Milkman. The Spectator’s literary editor, Sam Leith, the author Preti Taneja and Dr Xine Yao, an American literature lecturer at UCL, were the other judges of the award. “Milkman is a remarkable book – recording a specific time and a specific conflict with brilliant precision but universal in its account of how political allegiances crush and deform our instinctive human loyalties,” he said. Tom Sutcliffe, the chair of judges for the prize and BBC Radio 4 presenter, described the book’s tone of voice as “a marvel”. It has been described as “experimental” for its long paragraphs and use of descriptions rather than character names. Milkman follows the story of an 18-year-old girl who is harassed by a much older and married paramilitary. ![]()
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