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Eimear McBride is the author of three novels: Strange Hotel, The Lesser Bohemians and A Girl is a Half-formed Thing. She held the inaugural Creative Fellowship at the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading, and is the recipient of the Women's Prize for Fiction, Goldsmiths Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Irish Novel of the Year Award. She lives in London.A fearless, interrogative work that speaks so much to structural inequality and misogyny. A fierce and fascinating manifesto in McBride's persuasive prose
- Sinéad Gleeson,
A satisfying feminist polemic
- Susie Orbach, Guardian
A fierce, clear-eyed examination of the myriad ways in which women are objectified ... remarkable
- Stuart Kelly, Scotsman
Formidable
- Hayley Maitland, Vogue
An invigorating call to refuse the disgust directed at women
Herald
McBride is a very skilful prose stylist and is indubitably right to be incensed at the double standards and sheer prejudice of our culture
iPaper
Something Out of Place is an erudite contribution to that growing impulse in contemporary nonfiction: to cast one's testimony out into the void in the hopes that another will answer, and then another and another, and that each will be as exactingly executed, as deeply nuanced as the one preceding it
Irish Times
A brief and vivid polemic about disgust and shame and how they are used to such successful effect to disempower women ... There is something very exciting about contemplating a future for women where our disagreements about how best to live don't translate into weakness and division
- Megan Nolan, New Statesman