{"product_id":"a-girl-is-a-half-formed-thing","title":"A Girl is a Half-formed Thing","description":"Eimear 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-Formed Thing is to plunge inside its narrator's head, experiencing her world first-hand. This isn't always comfortable - but it is always a revelation. Touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma, McBride writes with singular intensity, acute sensitivity and mordant wit. A Girl is a Half-formed Thing is moving, funny - and alarming.","brand":"Wordsworth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137629241522,"sku":"9780571319664","price":295.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/a-girl-is-a-half-formed-thing","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}