![]() ![]() However, the main drama is conducted offstage in pubs, at parties and in bedrooms. The novel follows an unnamed 18-year-old Irish woman’s progress through three terms at a London acting school. Happily, her stunning second novel shows that she has not only acquired fresh surfaces to work on, she has also developed exciting new brush strokes. Her half-formed girl’s jumbled yet vivid stream of consciousness was so unique and accomplished that it prompted us to ask: Where does McBride go from here? Has she painted herself into a corner? ![]() But with McBride, story is secondary to voice. “The Lesser Bohemians” is a tale of wild living and passionate love in mid-1990s London. Two years after dazzling and unsettling readers with her debut novel, “A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing” - which explored and expressed childhood trauma through chaotic, frenetic, virtuosic language - Eimear McBride returns with a much anticipated follow-up. ![]()
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