We’ve selected 12 groups to shadow the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Here we look at one of the shortlisted titles, A Girl is a Half Formed Thing, which will be reviewed by The Waterfront Book Club and Warwickshire Super Readers in more detail.
h2. About the book
Eimear McBride’s novel tells the story of a young woman’s relationship with her brother who is living with the after effects of a brain tunour. 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 sensual urges 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.
About the author
Eimear McBride was born in Liverpool in 1976 to Irish parents. The family moved back to Ireland when she was three. McBride wrote A Girl is a Half-formed Thing in just six months, but it took nine years to get it published. The novel won the inaugural Goldsmith’s Prize in 2013.
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