Eimear McBride

Eimear McBride grew up in the west of Ireland and trained at Drama Centre London. Her first novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, took nine years to find a publisher and subsequently received a number of awards, including the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, and the Goldsmiths Prize. Her second novel, The Lesser Bohemians, won the 2016 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. In 2017 she was awarded the inaugural Creative Fellowship of the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading. Strange Hotel, her third novel, was published in 2020. In 2022 she wrote and directed A Very Short Film About Longing (DMC/BBC Film) which was selected to screen in the 2023 London Film Festival. Her new novel The City Changes Its Face revisits the characters from The Lesser Bohemians and it is published by Faber in February 2025.