Eimear McBride

Eimear McBride was born in Liverpool in 1976, grew up in the west of Ireland, and trained at London’s Drama Centre. She spent nine years seeking a publisher for her debut novel, *A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing* (2013), which subsequently received several awards. Her second novel, *The Lesser Bohemians* (2016), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her third novel, *Strange Hotel*, was published in 2020.