A Girl is a Half-formed Thing (Collectors’ Edition)

Using new, bespoke illustrations by award-winning artist Eleanor Crow this limited-run Members Collectors’ Edition of Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-formed Thing is signed by the author on a bespoke design signature page.

The edition is printed on premium wood-free paper and bound in burgundy fine linen cloth with yellow and white foil detail, gold head and tail bands and yellow ribbon marker.

Each purchase will be individually wrapped in brown paper and sealed with a Faber Members sticker.

Whether a gift for yourself or someone special, this striking exclusive edition brings one of Faber’s most beloved authors in a format to last generations.

About the book

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.

WINNER OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE

WINNER OF THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR

WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE

‘Eimear McBride is that old fashioned thing, a genius, in that she writes truth-spilling, uncompromising and brilliant prose.’
Anne Enright

‘A virtuosic debut: subversive, passionate, and darkly alchemical. Read it and be changed.’
Eleanor Catton

‘It is, in a single word, breathtaking.’
Nicola Barker