Eimear McBride | The City Changes Its Face
Recorded: Thu 24 Apr 2025
Duration: 1 hr
Eimear McBride | The City Changes Its Face
Spring 2025
A new novel from Eimear McBride is always an event, and The City Changes Its Face is no exception – an intense, lyrical exploration of love, obsession, and the passage of time.
It’s 1995 in Camden, and inside a small flat, twenty-year-old Eily and forty-year-old Stephen exist in the fevered haze of new love—bodies tangled, sheets unmade, the city rushing past their window. But eighteen months later, everything has shifted. Love has collided with reality. Stephen’s teenage daughter has returned, and Eily has made a choice that will change everything.
Now, on a rain-drenched London night, the two lovers retrace the course of their relationship, searching for what has been lost. Can they find their way back to each other, or will the weight of unspoken emotions, buried secrets, and unmet ambitions pull them apart?
With her trademark intensity and poetic precision, McBride delivers a searing, intimate portrait of passion, jealousy, and the relentless tide of time.
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