The City Changes Its Face

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I'm just not sure how to
What
Manage all this.
All what
Well you and her.


It's 1995. Outside the filthy window, the city rushes by. But up in the flat, there is only Eily and Stephen, 19 and 40. Only their bodies, the churning bedsheets. Pagodas of takeaway boxes. The total obsession of new love.

18 months later, and the flat feels different. Their world is merging with the common place. The scars of the past are intruding. Stray emotions you've neglected to secure. Ambitions and secrets still to confess. And now Gracie, Stephen's 17-year-old daughter, is about to arrive.

The city changes its face.

Author Bio

Eimear McBride grew up in the west of Ireland and trained at Drama Centre London. Her first novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing took nine years to find a publisher and subsequently received a number of awards, including the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, and the Goldsmiths Prize. Her second novel The Lesser Bohemians won the 2017 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. In 2017 she was awarded the inaugural Creative Fellowship of the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading.