{"title":"Eimear McBride","description":"Eimear McBride is the author of four novels: A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, The Lesser Bohemians, Strange Hotel and The City Changes Its Face. She held the inaugural Creative Fellowship at the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading and is the recipient of the Women's Prize for Fiction, Goldsmiths Prize, Kerry Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.","products":[{"product_id":"the-city-changes-its-face-hardcover","title":"The City Changes Its Face - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA most anticipated novel of 2025 in the \u003ci\u003eGuardian, Financial Times, Irish Times, New Statesman, Independent, Sunday Times, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Stylist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"One of the finest writers at work today.\" ANNE ENRIGHT\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Her prose is as haunting and moving as music.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eELIZABETH MCCRACKEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"McBride is a cartographer of the secret self, guiding us towards hidden treasure.\" CLAIRE KILROY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"So, all would be grand then, as far as the eye could see. Which it was, for a while. Up until the city, remembering its knives and forks, invited itself in to dine.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's 1995. Outside their grimy window, the city rushes by. But in the flat there is only Stephen and Eily. Their bodies, the tangled sheets. Unpacked boxes stacked in the kitchen and the total obsession of new love. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEighteen months later, the flat feels different. Love is merging with reality. Stephen's teenage daughter has re-appeared, while Eily has made a choice, the consequences of which she cannot outrun. Now they face a reckoning for all that's been left unspoken - emotions, secrets and ambitions. Tonight, if they are to find one another again, what must be said aloud? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLove rallies against life. Time tells truths. The city changes its face.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102808150239,"sku":"9780571384211","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/dZ4jzsYJdz9780571384211.webp?v=1781087394"},{"product_id":"strange-hotel-paperback","title":"Strange Hotel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Eimear McBride, author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eA Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, \u003c\/i\u003ecomes the beguiling travelogue of a woman in exile: from her past, her ghosts, and herself.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA nameless woman enters a hotel room. She's been here once before. In the years since, the room hasn't changed, but she has. Forever caught between check-in and check-out, she will go on to occupy other hotel rooms. From Avignon to Oslo, Auckland to Austin, each is as anonymous as the last but bound by rules of her choosing. There, amid the detritus of her travels, the matchbooks, cigarettes, keys and room-service wine, she negotiates with her memories, with the men she sometimes meets, with the clich s invented to aggravate middle-aged women, with those she has lost or left behind--and with what it might mean to return home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUrgent and immersive, filled with black humour and desire, McBride's \u003ci\u003eStrange Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of enduring emotional force.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104899535071,"sku":"9781250798411","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/K2tLY2I3L2ZkcFdnMjR1Sy9Cd2tBUT09.webp?v=1781112089"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/eimear-mcbride.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}