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‘An instant classic account of Irish girlhood that has catapulted McBride into the front rank of modern fiction.’ ―The Observer

EIMEAR 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, in that she writes truth-spilling, uncompromising and brilliant prose.’ ―The Guardian

‘Addressed to her brother, the entire narrative is constructed in half-strung sentences, devoid of commas or dialogue demarcations but abounding in full-stops. This fragmented syntax is never self-conscious; rather it powerfully heightens the narrator’s permanently fraught emotions and coheres into an immensely arresting novel. McBride is fully deserving of all her accolades; the question now is what she can produce next.’ —The Sunday Times

‘A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing pushes the boundaries of the novel form... The broken sentences are the narrator’s experience of a brutal world she is attempting to negotiate in staggers and fragments... each beautiful phrase McBride writes goes straight to the gut.’ —The Telegraph

‘McBride weaves something dazzling... She set out to pick up the experimental modernist baton from James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, and she has done just that.’ ―The Observer

‘You only need to read the first paragraph of McBride’s debut novel to know you are reading something special. She builds up images impressionistically over paragraphs and pages, and her writing has such glorious cadence that it should be read aloud.’ —The Times

‘Soul-wrenchingly sad.’ ―The Financial Times

‘There’s an immediacy, an emotional directness as the narrator rails against a frustrating, unfeeling world. Brave, bold, brilliant.’ —The Daily Mail

‘An unputdownable book.’ ―Daily Express

‘Eimear McBride’s stunning debut pushes the boundaries of the novel form.’ ―The Evening Standard

‘This singular experiment of a novel, is turning into this year’s sleeper hit.’ ―Metro

‘Eimear McBride is a writer of remarkable power and originality.’ —The Times Literary Supplement

‘A remarkable, harshly satisfying first novel.’ ―London Review of Books

‘This is the work of a writer with the courage to reinvent the sentence as she pleases, and the virtuosity required to pull it off.’ ―Literary Review

‘It truly is one of the most extraordinary things I’ve read in the last year.’ —Harper’s Bazaar

‘The author’s use of language is so unique, so instantly inimitable that McBridean deserves to be an adjective ... Writing like this doesn’t come about too often, and when it does it should be lauded.’ —New Humanist

‘A novel that redefines the novel - that not only takes us on an emotionally dense rollercoaster ride through the perils of intimacy and family life, but delivers the whole extraordinary story in a syntax that is flat out new and terrifyingly and wondrously imaginative.’ —The Herald Scotland

‘It is a narrative to read aloud as the images shatter and explode.’ ―The Irish Times

‘Eimear McBride’s ferociously intense and stylistically challenging account of a young girl’s coming-of-age in rural Ireland is an astonishing literary debut... bracingly alive with sardonic humour and brilliantly realised set-pieces... A remarkable achievement.’ —The Irish Independent

‘A brutal and brilliant debut ... This book will arouse powerful emotions in anyone who accords it the respect of reading with attention.’ —The Sunday Times Ireland

‘A virtuosic debut: subversive, passionate, and darkly alchemical. Read it and be changed.’ —Eleanor Catton

‘It is, in a single word, breathtaking.’ —Nicola Barker

‘A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing is wild, brave, moving and darkly cryptic.’ —Chris Cleave

Ten pages in and all the bells start ringing. It explodes into your chest.’ —Caitlin Moran

‘A life told from deep down inside, beautiful, harrowing, and ultimately rewarding the way only a brilliant work of literature can be.’ —Michael Chabon