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Eimear McBride grew up in the west of Ireland and studied acting at Drama Centre London. Her debut novel "A Girl is a Half-formed Thing" took nine years to publish and subsequently received the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, the Goldsmiths Prize, Desmond Elliot Prize, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her short fiction has appeared in "Dubliners 100," "The Long Gaze Back," and on Radio 4. She occasionally reviews for the Guardian, TLS, New Statesman, and New York Times Book Review.

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Paperback edition of the second novel from the Irish author of "A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing," which won five literary awards, including the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction. "Eimear McBride is that old-fashioned thin.".