![]() ![]() On 4 June McBride will find out whether the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction judges rate it above works by big hitters Donna Tartt and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This year it was shortlisted for the Folio prize, and paperback rights were sold to Faber. Rave reviews followed ( in the Guardian, Anne Enright called McBride a "genius") and a few months later the novel won the inaugural Goldsmiths prize for "boldly original fiction". Layte was then planning the launch of a small independent press, Galley Beggar, and in June 2013 McBride's A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing became the second Galley Beggar book. McBride and her husband, theatre director William Galinsky, had recently moved to Norwich where Galinsky runs an arts festival. To spend your adult life feeling like the thing you think you can do, no one else wants you to do, is hard." Nine years of your life, that's a lot of life, and it's not like it had all been going so well before. "It's hard to feel like your whole life is a failure. "I was pretty crushed actually," she says of that time. ![]()
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