A Girl is a Half-formed Thing Condition:Well Read and I was five foot

and I was five foot three

and so he decides that sinking the boat will make an effective statement

and at Bletchley Park a brilliant young codebreaker is facing a double nightmare

how leaders like Trump subvert them today

and no one will let her forget the past

A Girl is a Half-formed Thing Condition:Well Read and I was five footEimear McBride's debut tells, with astonishing insight and in brutal detail, the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. Not so much a stream of consciousness, as an unconscious railing against a life that makes little sense, and a shocking and intimate insight into the thoughts, feelings and chaotic sexuality of a vulnerable and isolated protagonist, to read A Girl Is A Half