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<p>Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (2013) and The Lesser Bohemians (2016) are renowned for their elliptical Joycean prose – and credited with triggering a fresh wave of experimental Irish fiction. Her third novel is more conventional in form, but no less mesmerising for it. Its nameless – and entirely rootless – narrator charts her endless journey from hotel room to hotel room in cities ranging from Paris to Auckland (and the many sexual encounters she has along the way), but her peripatetic lifestyle has a cost. Provocative in every sense of the word.</p>