The Lesser Bohemians
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| International Dublin Literary Award | 2018 | Shortlist |
| James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction | 2016 | Winner |
About This Book
Eimear McBride's second novel follows Eily, a young Irish girl newly arrived in London to study drama, and her consuming love affair with Stephen, a much older actor. Written in McBride's signature fractured stream-of-consciousness, the novel charts the texture of desire, shame, and the formation of selfhood against the backdrop of 1990s London. It won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction in 2016, making McBride the only author to win the prize for two different novels.
About the Author
Eimear McBride is an Irish novelist born in Liverpool in 1976 and raised in the west of Ireland. Her debut novel A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing was written over six months in 2004 but took a decade to find a publisher, eventually appearing with small press Galley Beggar in 2013. It went on to win the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction in 2014. Read more →
