![]() ![]() Unlike the sponsor's drinks, there was nothing syrupy about McBride's writing. Reviewing the book in the Financial Times Jonathan Lee recalled that McBride's debut novel A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing "famously ended up being released by the tiny Galley Beggar Press and winning, among many other awards, the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. McBride has made something strange and beautiful - well worth its difficulties". And McBride’s fractured syntax is well tuned to the body’s complex desires", before concluding, "It broke my heart several times over and on each occasion I had to stop to cry. She coins new words It can take a while to puzzle out some choices. You might call it stream of preconsciousness. She went on, "McBride has said that the techniques of method acting have informed the way she writes, breaking down a character’s experiences of the body and the mind and then finding a language that expresses them simultaneously. But at its heart is a swoonily old-fashioned romance of two damaged people learning how to take pleasure in each other". Writing in the London Evening Standard, Johanna Thomas-Corr began by noting, "Set in mid-Nineties London (whose pre-internet intimacy feels wonderfully alien), McBride’s second novel is as fearless and febrile as her debut. She becomes passionately involved with Stephen, a 39-year-old professional actor. ![]() Eilis, an 18-year-old Irish student, travels to London to take up a place at a drama school. ![]()
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