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Summary
Winner of numerous literary awards including the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize, Eimear McBride’s debut novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing plunges us into the psyche of a girl with breathtaking fury and intimacy.
‘Eimear McBride is a writer of remarkable power and originality.’ Times Literary Supplement
‘An instant classic.’ Guardian
Adapted for the stage by Annie Ryan for The Corn Exchange, Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-formed Thing premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival 2014.
‘Unflinching… magnificent… The narrative transposes effortlessly to the stage, as if this is where it belongs.’ Guardian
‘One of the best stage adaptations of a novel you’re likely to see.’ Sunday Times
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Eimear McBride is the author of four novels: A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, The Lesser Bohemians, Strange Hotel and The City Changes Its Face. She held the inaugural Creative Fellowship at the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading and is the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Goldsmiths Prize, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, and the…
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