![]() ![]() After she won the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, she quickly became one part saviour of literature and one part patron saint of the unpublished writer. ![]() ![]() An exploration into the mind of a woman as she grows up alongside a handicapped brother and a domineering mother, its prose was on par with the complexity and veracity of William Faulkner and felt like a slap in the face of modern literature’s numerous critics who lament the lack of a contemporary to James Joyce. In 2013 Eimear McBride’s debut novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, was released and with it came the story of an author who fought for nearly ten years to publish a book that was exciting, challenging and experimental in a literary atmosphere where the novel is constantly accused of having sold out to stories of easy-to-read fantasy or dystopian fiction. My review of The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride, was first published in Disclaimer Magazine on. ![]() To save losing my work, I have migrated most of the short stories and reviews I published with the site to my blog here. Unfortunately, as of 2020, Disclaimer Magazine no longer exists. ![]()
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