A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing

Driven to despair by the intimate traumas of family, a nameless woman uses her sexuality as a weapon and shield.

Eimear McBride was born in 1976 and grew up in the west of Ireland. At twenty-seven she wrote A Girl is a Half-formed Thing and spent the next nine years trying to have it published. In 2013 it was the recipient of the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize. She currently lives in the UK with her husband and daughter.