Book Review by Frank O’Shea Eimear McBride: The Lesser Bohemians, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2016, 312 pp. ISBN 978 1 9253 5516 1 RRP $32.99 A young Irish girl goes to London to enrol in a drama college. She meets a man twice her age in a pub, and they adjourn to his flat for sex. It is … Continue reading
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