I was born in Australia but grew up in England
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McBride's A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing is fully deserving of its laurels. Written out of the body with total conviction and amazing virtuosity, it has a great, headlong music, both harsh and beautiful, and a grip on its own senses that makes vivid the darker places that realism rarely reaches. The novel doesn't offer consolation, but leaves the reader with the sense that they know something essential, vital even, that they could not have come to know by any other imaginative means. Without question, McBride's novel belongs in the company of the best books of the dark.