At twenty-seven she wrote A Girl is a Half-formed Thing and spent the next nine years trying to have it published. First published in hardcover by Coffee House Press 2014Įimear McBride was born in 1976 and grew up in Ireland. Winner, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, 2014 Winner, Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, 2014 Plunging readers inside the psyche of a girl isolated by her own dangerously confusing sexuality, pervading guilt, and unrelenting trauma, McBride's writing carries echoes of Joyce, O'Brien, and Woolf. In scathing, furious, unforgettable prose, Eimear McBride tells the story of a young girl's devastating adolescence as she and her brother, who suffers from a brain tumor, struggle for a semblance of normalcy in the shadow of sexual abuse, denial, and chaos at home. A Girl is a Half-formed Thing is a revelatory work of fiction, a novel that instantly takes its place in the canon.
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