Eimear McBride

From the writer of one of the most memorable debuts of recent years, a story of first love and redemption. One night in London an eighteen year old girl, recently arrived from Ireland to study drama, meets an older actor and a tumultuous relationship ensues. Set across the bedsits and squats of mid-nineties north London, The Lesser Bohemians is a story about love and innocence, joy and discovery, the grip of the past and the struggle to be new again.

ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES25 BEST NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZEKERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDWINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE Eimear McBrides award-winning debut novel tells the story of a young womans 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-formedThing is to plunge inside its narrators head, experiencing her world at first hand. This isnt always comfortable - but it is always a revelation.

McBride is on blistering form. Sinéad GleesonAt the mid-point of her life a woman enters an Avignon hotel room. Shes been here once before - but while the room hasnt changed, she is a different person now. Forever caught between check-in and check-out, she will go on to occupy other hotel rooms, from Prague to Oslo, Auckland to Austin, each as anonymous as the last, but bound by rules of her choosing. There, amid the detritus of her travels, the matchbooks, cigarettes, keys and room-service wine, she will negotiate with memory, with the men she sometimes meets, and with what it might mean to return home.Nothing else feels so fresh, so radically new. Strange Hotel challenges and expands my sense of what art can do. Garth Greenwell

This book is from the writer of one of the most memorable debuts of recent years. An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama and falls violently in love with an older actor. This older man has a disturbing past that the young girl is

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.

Ganadora de los premios Desmond Elliot, Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction y Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year (2014), «Una chica es una cosa a medio hacer» es uno de los libros más influyentes de l

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Written during her time as the inaugural fellow in the Beckett archive last year, Eimear McBrides three short, characteristically brilliant plays - collected in one work, Mouthpieces.Each play depicts a fragment of female experience, all of them told in in Eimears vivid, original and sharp-witted style. In The Adminicle Exists, we hear the inner voice of a woman who saves her troubled, dangerous partner; in An Act of Violence, a woman is quizzed about her reaction to a mans death; in The Eye Machine, the character Eye tells of her imprisonment, flickering through a slideshow of female stereotypes.

Winner of numerous literary awards including the Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize, Eimear McBrides debut novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing plunges us into the psyche of a girl with breathtaking fury and intimacy.Eimear McBride is a writer of remarkable power and originality.Times Literary SupplementAn instant classic.Guardian Adapted for the stage by Annie Ryan for The Corn Exchange, Eimear McBrides A Girl is a Half-formed Thing premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival 2014.Unflinching... magnificent... The narrative transposes effortlessly to the stage, as if this is where it belongs.GuardianOne of the best stage adaptations of a novel youre likely to see.Sunday Times

A woman enters an Avignon hotel room. She's been here once before - but while the room hasn't changed, she is a different person now.Forever caught between check-in and check-out, she will go on to occupy other hotel rooms, from Prague to Oslo, Auckland to Austin, each as anonymous as the last. There, amid the open suitcases, the matchbooks, cigarettes, keys and room-service wine, she will negotiate with memory, with the men she sometimes meets, and with what it might mean to return home.

Eimear McBride is that old fashioned thing, a genius. Anne EnrightA nameless woman enters a non-descript hotel room shes been in once before, many years ago.

WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZEKERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDWINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZEEimear 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.

Eimear McBride is that old fashioned thing a genius Anne Enright McBride is a writer with the courage to reinvent the sentence as she pleases and the virtuosity required to pull it off Literary Review A writer for whom language is an end not a means a beginning not an end Jeanette Winterson From the winner of the Women s Prize an intense story of a passionate love affair arriving at its first test A rainy Camden night December 1996 20 year old Eily and 40 year old Stephen retrace the course of their two year love affair in search of what s gone wrong Is it Stephen s reconnection with his long lost teenage daughter Grace Or that he s a well known actor while Eily s still at drama school Maybe the autobiographical film he s just made has brought his old demons back to the surface Or perhaps Eily s youth has led her into a mistake she doesn t know how to fix Intimate experiential and immersive this is the story of what happens when it s love beyond question but trouble comes along anyway

¿Hi pot cabre tota una vida en una habitació d'hotel? ¿O bé deixem fragments de la nostra ànima com petits objectes perduts en hotels desconeguts? Una narradora sense nom comença un viatge a la rece

I'm just not sure how toWhat?Manage all this. All what? Well you and her. It's 1995.Outside the filthy window, the city rushes by. But up in the flat, there is only Eily and Stephen, 19 and 40. Only their bodies, the churning bedsheets.Pagodas of takeaway boxes. The total obsession of new love. 18 months later, and the flat feels different.Their world is merging with the common place. The scars of the past are intruding. Stray emotions you've neglected to secure.Ambitions and secrets still to confess. And now Gracie, Stephen's 17-year-old daughter, is about to arrive. The city changes its face.

AN IRISH TIMES TOP 100 BEST IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZEThe vibrant energy of 1990s London. A year of passion and discovery. The anxiety and intensity of new love.An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama and falls violently in love with an older actor. While she is naive and thrilled by life in the big city, he is haunted by demons. The clamorous relationship that ensues risks undoing them both. At once epic and exquisitely intimate, The Lesser Bohemians is a celebration of the dark and the light in love.

A MUST-READ NOVEL OF 2025 IN THE GUARDIAN,FINANCIAL TIMES,IRISH TIMES,SUNDAY TIMES,STYLIST, AND MANY OTHERSOne of the finest writers at work today.ANNE ENRIGHTMcBride is a cartographer of the secret self, guiding us towards hidden treasure.CLAIRE KILROYEimear McBride does extraordinary things with language . . . she breaks every rule in the grammar book and gleefully gets away with it.GUARDIANA typical McBride work. Praise doesnt come much higher.FINANCIAL TIMESSo, all would be grand then, as far as the eye could see. Which it was, for a while. Up until the city, remembering its knives and forks, invited itself in to dine.Its 1995. Outside their grimy window, the city rushes by. But in the flat there is only Stephen and Eily. Their bodies, the tangled sheets. Unpacked boxes stacked in the kitchen and the total obsession of new love.Eighteen months later, the flat feels different. Love is merging with reality. Stephens teenage daughter has re-appeared, while Eily has made a choice, the consequences of which she cannot outrun. Now they face a reckoning for all thats been left unspoken - emotions, secrets and ambitions. Tonight, if they are to find one another again, what must be said aloud?Love rallies against life. Time tells truths. The city changes its face.

¿Hi pot cabre tota una vida en una habitació d'hotel? ¿O bé deixem fragments de la nostra ànima com petits objectes perduts en hotels desconeguts?Una narradora sense nom comença un viatge a la recerc

Eily tiene dieciocho años y acaba de llegar a Londres para estudiar arte dramático. Desde una fría habitación alquilada, emplea su tiempo en clases por el día y fiestas por la noche, entre pintas de cervezas, cigarrillos, montañas de libros y algunas relaciones esporadicas con sus compañeros. Hasta que conoce a Stephen, un actor que la dobla en edad, atractivo y controlador, que carga con sus propios demonios internos. Ambos pasaran de la amistad al sexo casual y de ahi a una relacion cuya intensidad amenaza con arrasarlo todo a su paso.