![]() Her story of a girl's life in the shadow of sexual abuse and the brain tumour of a beloved brother took six months to write and many years to get published. ![]() McBride was hailed as "that old-fashioned thing, a genius" by fellow Irish novelist Anne Enright. The chair of the judging panel, Helen Fraser, a former managing director of Penguin Books, said: "This has been a fantastic year for women's fiction, as the quality of both the long and shortlist made clear, and I think what has emerged as the worthy winner is a really original new voice." ![]()
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