{"product_id":"lesser-bohemians","title":"Lesser Bohemians","description":"Review\n\nConfirms McBride's status as one of our major novelists . . . the life here radiates through the pages and illuminates ours. ― Guardian\n\nMagnificently accomplished . . . It is hard to summon up adequate superlatives to describe this fierce, touching, boisterously original and life-enhancing account of what it feels like to be young, to leave home and to fall in love. ― Literary Review\n\nAn unpredictable, turbulent, passionate book - remarkable for the quality of its interior life. ― Observer\n\nIt broke my heart several times over . . . McBride has made something strange and beautiful. ― Evening Standard\n\nThere's an openness, an inclusivity, a distinct lack of God-almightyness, that makes reading her such a pleasure . . . A writer for whom language is an end not a means, a beginning not an end. -- Jeanette Winterson ― New York Times Book Review\n\nProduct Description\n\nWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE 2017\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE BORD GAIS IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2016\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2017\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2018\nLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017\nLONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD\n\nThe vibrant energy of 1990s London. A year of passion and discovery. The anxiety and intensity of new love.\n\nAn eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama and falls violently in love with an older actor. While she is naive and thrilled by life in the big city, he is haunted by demons, and the clamorous relationship that ensues risks undoing them both. At once epic and exquisitely intimate, The Lesser Bohemians is a celebration of the dark and the light in love.\n\nBook Description\n\nThe second novel from Eimear McBride, author of the Baileys Prize winning novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing\n\nAbout the Author\n\nEimear McBride grew up in the west of Ireland and trained at Drama Centre London. Her first novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thingtook nine years to find a publisher and subsequently received a number of awards, including the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, and the Goldsmiths Prize. Her second novel The Lesser Bohemianswon the 2017 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. In 2017 she was awarded the inaugural Creative Fellowship of the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading. In a 2018 Times Literary Supplement poll of 200 critics, academics, and fiction writers, McBride was named one of the ten best British and Irish novelists writing today. Strange Hotel is McBride's third novel.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40595655589973,"sku":"9780571327881N","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/f109d5ba-4ed4-43fc-9661-d1a006904a7a.jpg?v=1682420997","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/lesser-bohemians","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}