The Irish author Eimear McBride has been awarded the Baileys book prize for her first novel titled “A Girl is a Half-formed Thing”. Her competitor was Donna Tartt’s colossal third novel, The Goldfinch.
McBride’s dark family story, penned in a forceful narrative of an anonymous narrator, won over the judges of the women’s prize for fiction, previously known as the Orange prize.
‘A Girl is a Half-formed Thing’ by Eimear McBride wins Baileys women’s prize for fiction
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2014
Category: Awards, Honours & Persons in News