Eimear McBride’s debut novel, A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing, has been named the winner of the 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Chair of judges Helen Fraser says, “An amazing and ambitious first novel that impressed the judges with its inventiveness and energy. This is an extraordinary new voice – this novel will move and astonish the reader”.
With astonishing insight and in brutal detail, the novel tells the story of a young woman’s relationship with her brother and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. McBride described her distinctive, unforgettable style as an attempt to capture “the moment before language becomes formatted thought”.
McBride was just twenty-seven when she wrote A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing and spent many years thereafter trying to have it published before it found a home with a small independent house.
Find out more the prize-winning novel here.
