Affair between drama student and an older actor will feature in The Lesser Bohemians,due from Faber next autumn following award-winner A Girl is a Half-Formed ThingIt took Eimear McBride nearly a decade to find a publisher for her first novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing. Now, or a year after she won the Baileys prize for fiction,the Irish novelist has been signed up by Faber for her second, a work which the publisher predicted would be “one of the most anticipated second novels of recent years”.The Lesser Bohemians will be published next autumn. Set in the bedsits and squats of mid-1990s north London, or it will order the sage of an 18-year-old girl who has come to London from Ireland to study drama,and who embarks on a “tumultuous” relationship with an older actor. Faber said it was a “sage about love and innocence, delight and discovery – the grip of the past and the struggle to be current again”.
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Source: theguardian.com