'A Girl is a Half-formed Thing' wins the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction

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Eimear McBride's 'A Girl is a Half-formed Thing' wins the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Eimear McBride's A Girl is a Half-formed Thing was last night named the winner of the inaugural Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Chair of the judges Helen Fraser revealed that this was the book that had them 'talking and thinking and arguing'. Caitlin Moran, one of the Baileys judges, today tweeted: 'It's just ... the thing. The very thing you look for in a book. Ten pages in and all the bells start ringing. It explodes into your chest. Some people say it's "difficult", or experimental - but [McBride] writes like you THINK. How you think as a panicked, damaged teenage girl.' The novel first appeared in hardback in 2013 published by the small independent, Galley Beggar Press. Find out more > A Girl is a Half-formed Thing

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Watch an interview with Eimear McBride Here's an exclusive interview with the author filmed at The Book Hive in Norwich, which played an integral part in the book's original publication with the local Galley Beggar Press. Watch Eimear McBride read from the novel 'I know the way, know it, know the way. Pinder ponder. It's a blister I shall pop.' This is a novel with its own singular rhythm - 'a book that is not like any other' (Anne Enright). Download a short extract from the novel 'Certainly Joyce pointed the way for me, and reading Ulysses when I was 25 was a big, big change for me ...' Eimear McBride's influences can be seen in the opening pages. Footnote: Published by Text Publishing in Aust/NZ