Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing, A (Winner Of Women'S Prize 2014

Description: 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. Touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma, McBride writes with singular intensity, acute sensitivity and mordant wit. A Girl is a Half-formed Thing is moving, funny - and alarming. Prizes: Winner of Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 and Desmond Elliott Prize 2014 and Goldsmiths Prize 2013. Shortlisted for Folio Prize 2014. Author Biography: Eimear McBride was born in 1976 in Liverpool to Northern Irish parents. Aged two she and her family returned to Ireland and her childhood was mostly spent in Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo. At twenty-seven she wrote A Girl is a Half-formed Thing. She moved to Cork in 2006, and Norwich in 2011, where she currently lives with her husband and daughter. She is working on her second novel. The sensational first novel from Eimear McBride, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize and shortlisted for the Folio Prize and the Desmond Elliot Prize