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 City by the Light Divided the band went on the second leg of the Shirts for a Cure tour, with support from Minus the Bear, mewithoutYou and We're All Broken. "A City by the Light Divided" was released on May 2 through Island Records. The UK version of the album, which was released through Hassle Records, included the bonus track "Even the Sand Is Made of Seashells". In May and June, the group went on a UK tour. In the summer, the band went on the 2006 edition of Warped Tour. In October and November, the group went on the 2006 international edition of the