Cambridge Literary Festival writes:
If you would like to win five books for yourself and your book club, simply answer this literary question:
Q: How many years did it take until A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing was published?
Email your answer (along with the name of your book group) to [email protected] by midday on Wednesday 19 November. The winner will be drawn at random from the correct answers and contacted shortly afterwards. Books must be collected from our office in central Cambridge. Eimear McBride's debut novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, won the Goldmiths Prize 2013 and Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014. With its broken syntax, absence of commas and its intense, gritty look at growing up in 1980s Catholic Ireland, McBride’s critically-acclaimed novel is certainly not known for being an easy read. A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing tells the stark story of a young girl’s troubled relationship with her family, including her beloved brother who suffers from a brain tumour, whilst growing up in Ireland and goes on to explore the harrowing experience of sexual abuse. Helen Fraser, chairman of the judges for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, has described the novel as original and ambitious: “it has an incredible, raw energy that excites you as a reader.”
Q: How many years did it take until A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing was published?
Email your answer (along with the name of your book group) to [email protected] by midday on Wednesday 19 November. The winner will be drawn at random from the correct answers and contacted shortly afterwards. Books must be collected from our office in central Cambridge. Eimear McBride's debut novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, won the Goldmiths Prize 2013 and Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014. With its broken syntax, absence of commas and its intense, gritty look at growing up in 1980s Catholic Ireland, McBride’s critically-acclaimed novel is certainly not known for being an easy read. A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing tells the stark story of a young girl’s troubled relationship with her family, including her beloved brother who suffers from a brain tumour, whilst growing up in Ireland and goes on to explore the harrowing experience of sexual abuse. Helen Fraser, chairman of the judges for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, has described the novel as original and ambitious: “it has an incredible, raw energy that excites you as a reader.”
Eimear McBride is one of the most innovative and inspirational new writers of our time, so don’t miss this chance to hear her discuss the most garlanded book of the year.....which almost wasn’t published.
Sunday 30 November
Winstanley Lecture Theatre
5.30pm-6.30pm
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