The Lesser Bohemians

** WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE **

** SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE **

The second novel from Eimear McBride, author of the Baileys Prize winning novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing.



The vibrant energy of 1990s London. A year of passion and discovery. The anxiety and intensity of new love.



An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama and falls violently in love with an older actor. While she is naive and thrilled by life in the big city, he is haunted by demons. The clamorous relationship that ensues risks undoing them both. At once epic and exquisitely intimate, The Lesser Bohemians is a celebration of the dark and the light in love.



Eimear McBride grew up in the west of Ireland and trained at Drama Centre London. Her first novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing took nine years to find a publisher and subsequently received a number of awards, including the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, and the Goldsmiths Prize. Her second novel The Lesser Bohemians won the 2017 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. In 2017 she was awarded the inaugural Creative Fellowship of the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading.