THE CITY CHANGES ITS FACE

Eimear McBride is that old fashioned thing a genius Anne Enright McBride is 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 From the winner of the Women s Prize an intense story of a passionate love affair arriving at its first test A rainy Camden night December 1996 20 year old Eily and 40 year old Stephen retrace the course of their two year love affair in search of what s gone wrong Is it Stephen s reconnection with his long lost teenage daughter Grace Or that he s a well known actor while Eily s still at drama school Maybe the autobiographical film he s just made has brought his old demons back to the surface Or perhaps Eily s youth has led her into a mistake she doesn t know how to fix Intimate experiential and immersive this is the story of what happens when it s love beyond question but trouble comes along anyway