Eimear McBride

Eimear McBride (born 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. McBride was born in Liverpool in 1976 to Irish parents. The family moved back to Ireland when she was three. She spent her childhood in Tubbercurry, Sligo, and Mayo. Then, at the age of 17, she moved to London to begin her studies at The Drama Centre.

Contents

• Eimear mcbride on a girl is a half formed thing
• Eimear mcbride talks about a girl is a half formed thing
• Published works
• Awards and honours
• References

McBride wrote A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing in just six months, but it took nine years to get it published. Galley Beggar Press of Norwich, which is where McBride now lives with her husband and daughter, finally picked it up in 2013. The novel is written in a stream of consciousness style and tells the story of a young woman's complex relationship with her family.

McBride's second novel The Lesser Bohemians was published on 1 September 2016. McBride discussed the book on Woman's Hour on 8 September and it was reviewed on BBC Radio 4's programme Saturday Review on 17 September.

Published works

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (Galley Beggar Press, 2013)

The Lesser Bohemians (Faber and Faber, 2016)

Awards and honours

2013 Goldsmiths Prize winner for A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

2013 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize winner for A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

2014 Folio Prize shortlist for A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction winner for A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

2014 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award winner for A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

2014 Desmond Elliott Prize (for debut novelists) winner for A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

2016 Goldsmiths Prize shortlist for The Lesser Bohemians