A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing: Adapted for the Stage

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Winner of numerous literary awards including the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014, The Desmond Elliott Prize 2014, The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2014, The Goldsmith Prize 2013 and listed in Best Books of the Year by the New York Times, Guardian, NPR and many more, Eimear McBride's debut novel A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing plunges us into the psyche a girl with breathtaking fury and intimacy.

'Eimear McBride is a writer of remarkable power and originality.' Times Literary Supplement

'An instant classic.' Guardian

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'Eimear McBride is a writer of remarkable power and originality.' --Times Literary Supplement

'An instant classic.' --Guardian

'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

Author Bio

Eimear McBride was born in 1976. Her childhood was spent mostly in Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo, and later in Castlebar, Co. Mayo. In 1994, aged seventeen, she went to London and spent the next three years studying acting at Drama Centre. Much of her twenties were spent temping and travelling. At twenty-seven she wrote A Girl is a Half-formed Thing. She moved to Cork in 2006, and to Norwich in 2011, where she still lives with her husband and daughter. She is currently working on her second novel.