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Eimear McBride

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Liverpool, The United Kingdom

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Eimear McBride was born in Liverpool in 1976 to Irish parents. The family moved back to Ireland when she was three. She spent her childhood in Sligo and Mayo. Then, at the age of 17, she moved to London.

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Average rating: 3.54 · 25,487 ratings · 4,571 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing 3.48 avg rating — 13,932 ratings — published 2013 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lesser Bohemians 3.84 avg rating — 5,140 ratings — published 2016 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Country Girls Trilogy: The Country Girls; The Lonely Girl; Girls in their Married Bliss by Edna O'Brien, Eimear McBride (Foreword) 3.89 avg rating — 4,520 ratings — published 1986 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova, Eimear McBride (Introduction), D.M. Thomas (Translator) 4.30 avg rating — 4,046 ratings — published 1969 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange Hotel 2.91 avg rating — 1,774 ratings — published 2020 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Something Out of Place: Women and Disgust 3.35 avg rating — 623 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The City Changes Its Face 3.51 avg rating — 479 ratings — published 2025 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mouthpieces 3.49 avg rating — 205 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing: Adapted for the Stage by Eimear McBride, Annie Ryan (Adaptor) 3.81 avg rating — 88 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	HiBrow: The Folio Prize Fiction Festival by Eimear McBride, Mark Haddon, Paul Baggaley 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Hurt me. Until I am outside pain.”
― Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing

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“I am tired. Too full of stuff I've done. Where my legs hurt where my scalp hurts. I'll not fight the thing inside me anymore. Let it eat me up. Please God. I want it to.”
― Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing

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“Board my body up. I’m not for loving. Anymore.”
― Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

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Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck

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A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride

5 votes, 22.7%

Redeployment by Phil Klay

3 votes, 13.6%

Any Bitter Thing by Monica Wood

2 votes, 9.1%

Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

1 vote, 4.5%

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