Ms. McBride’s first novel also topped American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Donna Tartt’s Goldfinch to win the $30,000 (N4.8 million) prize.
According to U.K. Daily Mail, Ms. McBride wrote the novel within six months in 2004.
However, over the years, it was rejected by almost every publisher she took it to as “too experimental.”
Eventually, in 2013, it was published by Norwich-based (her hometown) independent publisher, Gallery Beggar Press, who gave her a £600 advance, before it now won her this prize.
A Girl is a Half-formed Thing “tells the story of a young woman’s relationship with her brother who is living with the after effects of a brain tumor.”
The chairperson of the Women’s Prize for Fiction judging panel, Helen Fraser, called the novel “an amazing and ambitious first novel.” “This is an extraordinary new voice – this novel will move and astonish the reader,” she said. Big congrats to her.
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