No Bones by Anna Burns First Book 2001 1st Ed (BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2018 Milkman)
Scarce first edition, paperback as issued, fading/sunning to spine, SEE IMAGES\n\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2002\nA stunning debut novel about a little girl growing up in Belfast, from the author of the Man Booker Prize winning novel, Milkman.\n\u2019Marvellous: shocking, moving, evocative\u2019 Daily Mail\nThis is sensational. This young Irishwoman is perhaps the most distinctive, the most purely gifted new writer to come to Flamingo all year.\nHer debut novel tracks the tragicomic fortunes of the Lovett family of Catholic Belfast \u2013 splenetically violent father; shrewdly mad mother; malevolent Mick the eldest; and dreamy, endearing Amelia, our narrator of choice. Their antics over the years (she devotes, more or less, one chapter per year from 1969 to the late 1990s) \u2013 fights, school, kickings, the IRA and the RUC vying for Most Inept Police in the City, more violence \u2013 make for black comedy of the highest order.\nWe are up amongst the gods
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