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The City Changes Its Face with Eimear McBride

Thu, 20 Feb

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The Small City Bookshop

Join us in conversation on the latest novel from the Goldsmith Prize-Winning Author of 'A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing'.

The City Changes Its Face with Eimear McBride
The City Changes Its Face with Eimear McBride

Time & Location

20 Feb 2025, 19:00 – 20:30

The Small City Bookshop, 201 Church Rd, Redfield, Bristol BS5 9HL, UK

About the event

We couldn't be more excited for this one. Its Eimear McBride!

The Irish novelist, whose debut novel, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, won the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize in 2013 and the 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. She is a writer unlike any other.

You have time to read The Lesser Bohemians first. One of our favourite books of all time. We cannot recommend it enough.


Do Not Miss This One.


'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


About the book

Eily and Stephen are back. Prepare yourself to be immersed back in their world.


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


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.



Tickets

  • Entry Only

    This ticket includes entry to the event, 10% off a copy of the book and a free drink.

    £5.00
    +£0.13 service fee
  • Hardback + Free Entry

    This ticket includes a hardback copy of The City Changes Its Face, free entry to the event and a free drink.

    £20.00
    +£0.50 service fee

Total

£0.00

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