Awards

• Short-listed for Los Angeles Times Book Prizes: Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction 2015
• Shortlisted for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014.
• Shortlisted for Desmond Elliott Prize 2014.
• Shortlisted for Folio Prize 2014.
• Shortlisted for Los Angeles Times Book Prizes: Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction 2015.
• Winner of Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014.
• Winner of Desmond Elliott Prize 2014.
• Winner of Goldsmiths Prize 2013.

Overview

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE WINNER OF THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE Eimear McBride's debut tells, with astonishing insight and in brutal detail, the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. Not so much a stream of consciousness, as an unconscious railing against a life that makes little sense, and a shocking and intimate insight into the thoughts, feelings and chaotic sexuality of a vulnerable and isolated protagonist, to read A Girl is A Half-Formed Thing is to plunge inside its narrator's head, experiencing her world first-hand. This isn't always comfortable - but it is always a revelation.

Full Product Details

9780571319664

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Eimear McBride is the author of two novels: The Lesser Bohemians (James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and A Girl is a Half-formed Thing (Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction, Irish Novel of the Year, the Goldsmiths Prize, and others). She was the inaugural creative fellow at the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading and occasionally writes for the Guardian, TLS, New Statesman and the Irish Times.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available