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Published: June 17, 2019, 2:22 a.m.

Eimear McBride is an Irish novelist whose debut novel,\xa0A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, won the inaugural\xa0Goldsmiths Prize\xa0in 2013 and the 2014\xa0Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.\xa0She wrote the book\xa0in six months, but it took nine years to get it published. Galley Beggar Press of\xa0Norwich\xa0finally picked it up in 2013.\xa0The novel is written in a\xa0stream of consciousness-like\xa0style and tells the story of a young woman's complex relationship with her family.

McBride's second novel\xa0The Lesser Bohemians\xa0was published in September 2016.\xa0Set in Camden Town in the 1990s, it tells the story of the turbulent relationship between an eighteen year old drama student and a thirty-eight year old actor.

In 2017 McBride was awarded the inaugural Creative Fellowship of the Beckett Research Centre,\xa0University of Reading.

We met in Montreal - where she was, at the invitation of the School of Irish Studies at Concordia University - to talk about her work, and her experience getting it published.\xa0