Irish author Eimear McBride has won the 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction with her astonishing debut novel, A Girl is Half-Formed Thing. The chair of the judging panel, Helen Fraser, said: “This has been a fantastic year for women’s fiction, as the quality of both the long- and shortlist made clear, and I think what has emerged as the worthy winner is a really original new voic... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Eimear McBride author of A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing Ten Terrifying Questions  ———————- 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? Schooled? I was born in Liverpool to Irish parents and moved back to Ireland just before my third birthday. I was raised in the west, firs... Read more