A Girl is a Half-formed Thing - Eimear McBride (Paperback) 10-04-2014 Winner of Desmond Elliott Prize 2014 and Goldsmiths Prize 2013. Short-listed for Los Angeles Times Book Prizes: Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction 2015 and Folio Prize 2014 and
WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE Eimear McBride's award-winning debut novel tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. It is 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 at first hand. This isn't always comfortable - but it is always a revelation.