Eimear McBride - Literary Lunchtimes

Eimear McBride
Literary Lunchtimes

Ulster Hall event
3 December 2014


Meet the author behind the literary sensation of the year. Eimear McBride’s multi-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.

Not so much a stream of consciousness as an unconscious railing against a life that makes little sense, it is a shocking and intimate insight into the thoughts, feelings and chaotic sexuality of a vulnerable and isolated protagonist. Winner of the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize, the Bailey`s Women`s Prize for Fiction, and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, shortlisted for the Folio Prize and longlisted for The Desmond Elliot Prize, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing is an unforgettable novel from a major new literary talent.

‘Eimear McBride is that old fashioned thing, a genius, in that she writes truth-spilling, uncompromising and brilliant prose...’ (The Guardian)