Adichie Loses to Ms. McBride: The Prestigious Bailey’s Women’s Prize For Fiction

A story by U.K. author, Eimear McBride, A Girl Is A Half Formed Thing, a week ago Wednesday emerged the winner of the prestigious Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction beating Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah. 

Ms. McBride's first novel also topped American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Donna Tartt's Goldfinch to win the $30,000 (N4.8 million) prize.
Based on U.K. Daily Mail, Ms. McBride wrote the novel within 6 months in 2004.
However, over the years, it was rejected by nearly every publisher she took it to as “too experimental.”

Eventually, in 2013, it was published by Norwich-based (her hometown) independent publisher, Gallery Beggar Press, who gave her a £600 advance, before it now won her this prize.
A Girl is a Half-formed Thing “tells the story of a young woman’s relationship with her brother who is living with the after effects of a brain tumor.”
The chairperson of the Women’s Prize for Fiction judging panel, Helen Fraser, called the novel “an amazing and ambitious first novel.” “This is an extraordinary new voice – this novel will move and astonish the reader,” she said. Big congrats to her.