Eimear McBride

Eimear McBride is a writer whose debut novel, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, won the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize in 2013 and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction in 2014. McBride was born in Liverpool in 1976 to Irish parents. The family moved to Ireland when she was three years old. She spent her childhood in Tubbercurry, Sligo, and Mayo. Then, at the age of 17, she moved to London to begin her studies at the Drama Centre.
McBride wrote A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing in just six months, but it took her nine years to publish it. Galley Beggar Press in Norwich, where McBride now lives with her husband and daughter, finally picked up the book in 2013. The novel is written in a fluid, conscious style and tells the story of a young girl's complex relationship with her family.