A Girl is a Half-formed Thing Condition:Well Read The Heroin Diaries follows Nikki

The Heroin Diaries follows Nikki during the year he plunged to rock bottom -- and his courageous decision to pick himself up and start living again

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Molly can’t stomach the idea of rejection

and no one will let her forget the past

A Girl is a Half-formed Thing Condition:Well Read The Heroin Diaries follows NikkiEimear McBride's debut tells, with astonishing insight and in brutal detail, the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. Not so much a stream of consciousness, as an unconscious railing against a life that makes little sense, and a shocking and intimate insight into the thoughts, feelings and chaotic sexuality of a vulnerable and isolated protagonist, to read A Girl Is A Half