‘Brilliantly rule-breaking fiction’ – Lucy Hughes-Hallett in The Guardian

Eimear McBride grew up in the West of Ireland and in Liverpool. She is the author of four extraordinary lyrical novels: A Girl is a Half-formed Thing (2013), The Lesser Bohemians (2016), Strange Hotel (2020) and The City Changes Its Face (2025). She is the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Goldsmiths Prize, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She is a daring, innovative writer, both in subject matter and style. Famously it took her nine years to find a publisher for her innovative debut. Her latest novel begins in 1995 in Camden Town. It reintroduces the characters from The Lesser Bohemians and is an atmospheric intense exploration of love, passion and obsession.       

Photo of Eimear McBride: Kat Green