![]() McBride has devised a narrative so alarmingly akin to the warblings of the barely conscious mind that the book speaks more in the patterns and rhythms of thought than in words. ![]() Through the constraints of her storytelling, McBride’s sex scenes – of which there are many – tread the fine line between the explicit and the gratuitous. Still, it can be difficult for the reader to maintain empathy, as the words on the page jar and stutter in accordance with the plot. The intimacy of the prose remains startling throughout the book. ![]() From the outset, McBride crafts an unnerving and unabridged romance, with sections of prose tumbling out from amongst a stilted and often sing-song narrative, heavily pregnant with the unsaid. Set largely at an unnamed drama school in 1990s London, the novel follows a young Irish actress through the uncertain tempo of a fledgling relationship that offers both parties the chance to climb free of characteristically difficult beginnings. ![]() Needless to say, for the publishers, The Lesser Bohemians, did not seem such a gamble and McBride shows a renewed confidence in her own style throughout this second book. ![]() Eimear McBride’s first novel A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing quickly defied the nine years it had spent unpublished, going on first to win the Goldsmiths Prize and later the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. ![]()
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