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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
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