The prize that used to be called the Orange Prize for Fiction and then was called something else and now is called something else yet again -- but you know what I mean, that prize for: "the best, eligible full-length novel in English" written by a woman -- has announced that A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, by Eimear McBride, takes this year's prize.
A US edition is only due out in September (pre-order your copy at Amazon.com) but the UK edition has been out for a while (get your copy at Amazon.co.uk).
Impressively, it was small publisher Galley Beggar Press that picked this up -- and it's also gotten good attention (see, for example, the TLS review) and had already gotten some other prize-attention, too (such as winning the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize).
A US edition is only due out in September (pre-order your copy at Amazon.com) but the UK edition has been out for a while (get your copy at Amazon.co.uk).
Impressively, it was small publisher Galley Beggar Press that picked this up -- and it's also gotten good attention (see, for example, the TLS review) and had already gotten some other prize-attention, too (such as winning the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize).