The City Changes Its Face - SIGNED COPY

Author(s): McBride, Eimear
Binding: Hardback,
Date of Publication: 13/02/2025,
Pagination: 336 pages,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780571384211,
Description:

'A writer with the courage to reinvent the sentence as she pleases, and the virtuosity required to pull it off.' Literary Review'A writer for whom language is an end not a means, a beginning not an end.' Jeanette Winterson'A writer of remarkable power and originality.' Times Literary Supplement'Day. Another. London city and world. There before me as you were. I still see you as I saw you and long to be you, as I was you, all the way over again.'1995. London. Outside the filthy window, the city rushes by. But up in the flat, there is only Eily and Stephen, nineteen and thirty-nine. The total obsession of new love.

Eighteen months later, a rainy Camden night. Eily and Stephen retrace the course of their two-year romance now their world is merging with the common place and ties from the past are intruding. Stephen has reconnected with his long-lost teenage daughter Grace. Eily thinks about the future and their flat feels different.

The city changes its face.

Intimate, experiential, and immersive, The City Changes Its Face explores a passionate love affair tested to its limits.