The Lesser Bohemians Paperback by Eimear McBride

Product Details

• Publisher: Emblem Editions (2017-08-15)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 336 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780771059292
• Item Weight: 258.55 grams
• Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.2 x 0.7 cm

The captivating, daring new novel from Eimear McBride, whose astonishing debut novel, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, was an international literary phenomenon and earned the author multiple awards and recognition.


     Upon arrival in London, an eighteen-year-old Irish girl begins anew as a drama student, with all the hopes of any young actress searching for the fame she's always dreamed of. She struggles to fit in--she's young and unexotic; a naive new girl--but soon she forges friendships and finds a place for herself in the big city.
     Then she meets an attractive older man. He's an established actor twenty years her senior, and the inevitable, clamorous relationship that ensues is one that will change her forever.
     A redemptive, captivating story of passion and innocence set across the bedsits of mid-nineties London, McBride holds new love under her fierce gaze, giving us all a chance to remember what it's like to fall hard for another.

About the Author

EIMEAR MCBRIDE grew up in the west of Ireland and trained at Drama Centre London before turning her attention to writing novels. Her books A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, The Lesser Bohemians, and Strange Hotel have won numerous awards respectively, including the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, The Goldsmiths Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In a 2018 Times Literary Supplement poll of 200 critics, Eimear was named one of the ten best British and Irish novelists writing today. Alongside writing novels, Eimear is an active screenwriter and directed a short film titled A VERY SHORT FILM ABOUT LONGING, starring Joe Alwyn.