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Irish novelist

Eimear McBride (born 6 October 1976) is an Irish novelist, whose debut novel, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, won the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize in 2013 and the 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.^[1][2]

Published works

McBride wrote A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing in 6 months, but it took nine years to get it published.

Galley Beggar Press of Norwich finally picked it up in 2013.^[3] The novel is written as a stream-of-consciousness and recounts the story of a young woman's complex relationship with her family.^[4]

McBride's second novel The Lesser Bohemians was published on 1 September 2016.^[5] Set in Camden Town in the 1990s, it tells the story of the turbulent relationship between an 18-year-old drama student and a 38-year-old actor.

McBride discussed the book on Woman's Hour on 8 September^[6] and it was reviewed on BBC Radio 4's programme Saturday Review on 17 S