I wrote my debut novel A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing in six months, during 2003 and 2004. Eimear McBride webchat – post your questions now Read moreI remembered watching Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves in 1996. The reader experiences the narrative from the girl’s perspective, therefore it seemed logical they never receive descriptions of her appearance – for who walks around describing themselves to themselves? To express a natural, prismatic experience of life through words – rather than the performer’s body – language had to work differently. • Eimear McBride will discuss A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing at a Guardian Book Club event in London on 29 September.

Source: The Guardian September 10, 2016 09:56 UTC