A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing is the debut novel of Eimear McBride. This stream of consciousness novel explores an Irish girl's relationship with her disabled brother, religious mother, and her own troubled sexuality. Joshua Cohen described how McBride's experimental style "forgoes quotation marks and elides verbiage for sense, sound and sheer appearance on the page. For emphasis it occasionally wreaks havoc on capItalS and reverses letter order." McBride began writing her debut novel whilst working in a series of office temp jobs. It took nine years to find a publisher and was rejected
A House Divided (Upstairs, Downstairs) I tried to make them [the life boat] go back! I tried to save my Lady." A House Divided (Upstairs, Downstairs) "A House Divided" was the second episode of the third series of the British television series, "Upstairs, Downstairs". The episode is set in 1913. Lady Marjorie Bellamy, her brother Hugo Talbot-Carey (the Earl of Southwold), and his new wife (widow Marion Worsley) die in the sinking of the RMS "Titanic". Her lady's maid, Miss Roberts survives the sinking of the "Titanic" while travelling to America with Lady Marjorie, who perishes. Her last known words being uttered to her maid—"Keep