The multi-award winning novelist, Eimear McBride, will give a reading at UCC on January 28 as

part of the  School of English’s spring reading series.  Her novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing –

described by the New Yorker as “blazingly daring” took the literary world by storm winning the

inaugural Goldsmiths Prize, the Baileys Prize, The Kerry Group Irish novel of Year Award, the

Desmond  Elliot Prize and the Geoffrey FaberMemorial Prize.

The reading will be introduced by the School of English’s Writer-in-Residence, dramatist Michael

West.

Admission is free and all are welcome.