A MUST-READ NOVEL OF 2025 IN THE GUARDIAN,FINANCIAL TIMES,IRISH TIMES,SUNDAY TIMES,STYLIST, AND MANY OTHERS
'One of the finest writers at work today.' ANNE ENRIGHT
'McBride is a cartographer of the secret self, guiding us towards hidden treasure.' CLAIRE KILROY
'Eimear McBride does extraordinary things with language . . . she breaks every rule in the grammar book and gleefully gets away with it.'GUARDIAN
'A typical McBride work. Praise doesn't come much higher.'FINANCIAL TIMES
So, all would be grand then, as far as the eye could see. Which it was, for a while. Up until the city, remembering its knives and forks, invited itself in to dine.
It's 1995. Outside their grimy window, the city rushes by. But in the flat there is only Stephen and Eily. Their bodies, the tangled sheets. Unpacked boxes stacked in the kitchen and the total obsession of new love.
Eighteen months later, the flat feels different. Love is merging with reality. Stephen's teenage daughter has re-appeared, while Eily has made a choice, the consequences of which she cannot outrun. Now they face a reckoning for all that's been left unspoken - emotions, secrets and ambitions. Tonight, if they are to find one another again, what must be said aloud?
Love rallies against life. Time tells truths. The city changes its face.
Genre: Literary Fiction
'One of the finest writers at work today.' ANNE ENRIGHT
'McBride is a cartographer of the secret self, guiding us towards hidden treasure.' CLAIRE KILROY
'Eimear McBride does extraordinary things with language . . . she breaks every rule in the grammar book and gleefully gets away with it.'GUARDIAN
'A typical McBride work. Praise doesn't come much higher.'FINANCIAL TIMES
So, all would be grand then, as far as the eye could see. Which it was, for a while. Up until the city, remembering its knives and forks, invited itself in to dine.
It's 1995. Outside their grimy window, the city rushes by. But in the flat there is only Stephen and Eily. Their bodies, the tangled sheets. Unpacked boxes stacked in the kitchen and the total obsession of new love.
Eighteen months later, the flat feels different. Love is merging with reality. Stephen's teenage daughter has re-appeared, while Eily has made a choice, the consequences of which she cannot outrun. Now they face a reckoning for all that's been left unspoken - emotions, secrets and ambitions. Tonight, if they are to find one another again, what must be said aloud?
Love rallies against life. Time tells truths. The city changes its face.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"No one else writes like Eimear McBride, with such supple, unexpected, funny, libidinous prose. This is a work of fierce intimacy, fearless in its descriptions of the inner lives of its characters, racked as they are by desire and hurt." - Naomi Booth
"Eimear McBride is the natural heir to Joyce and Beckett: she is one of the finest writers at work today." - Anne Enright
"The City Changes its Face is an immersive battle between the faultlines dividing us and the bonds which unite us. McBride is a cartographer of the secret self, guiding us towards hidden treasure." - Claire Kilroy
"Her prose is as haunting and moving as music." - Elizabeth McCracken
"Eimear McBride is the natural heir to Joyce and Beckett: she is one of the finest writers at work today." - Anne Enright
"The City Changes its Face is an immersive battle between the faultlines dividing us and the bonds which unite us. McBride is a cartographer of the secret self, guiding us towards hidden treasure." - Claire Kilroy
"Her prose is as haunting and moving as music." - Elizabeth McCracken
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