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LITERATURE ......................................... Eimear McBride A love letter to 90s London Eimear McBride won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2014 for her debut novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, a tale of a young woman’s coming-of-age in rural Ireland. Her second book, The Lesser Bohemians, is out now. She appears at the Charleston Small Wonder Festival this month. The Lesser Bohemians is set in mid-1990s London. For me, it feels like a love letter to that time and place as much as a study of human relationships. Was that your intention? I think you’re right in calling it a love letter. I hadn’t set out to write about that time, but I had recently moved back to Ireland and I really missed living in London. I started to think about it, particularly the London I’d known when I first arrived at 17, and I became interested in examining that time. Everyone has their own London; that was mine. I felt like it was a very interesting period where lots of things were about to change. You moved to London from Ireland in 1993, aged 17, to study drama. The Lesser Bohemians tells the story of an 18-year-old Irish girl who moves to London to attend drama school in 1994. Are you braced for the assumption that it’s autobiographical? People made that assumption about my first book, so I’m prepared for it and I understand why people draw those parallels, but it’s very much a work of fiction. But it’s interesting that that question comes up a lot. I think often when people feel affected by something, they want to believe that it’s really true. That in itself is intriguing, because the beauty of fiction is its ability to speak about deeper truths. There often seems to be an assumption that women writers, in particular, must necessarily be writing from a place of experience. It’s certainly something women deal with a lot more than men; I think [that assumption] is something a lot of critics feel more comfortable with when it comes to women. I think they feel unsafe when women make great imaginative leaps - in a way that they don’t with men - because we aren’t supposed to, traditionally, and if we do, we’re supposed to keep it to ourselves. I do find it annoying that it comes up again and again. When was the last time someone asked [Philip] Roth what exactly was and what was not true, you know? Both of your novels tell the stories of young women teetering on the brink of adulthood. What is it about that particular framework for a character that you’re drawn to? Well, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing follows a person from the womb to the age of 20. But I suppose I’m interested in the moments when we are formed as people; that time when we start to become what we will be. Interview by Moya Crockett Eimear McBride appears in conversation at the Charleston Small Wonder Short Story Festival at 5.30pm on Friday 30th. £12 (£10 concessions). Charleston, Firle, BN8 6LL. For tickets see charleston.org.uk Photo © JMA Photography ....53....
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