Please join us on the evening of Thursday 13th February to celebrate the publication of multi-award-winning author (and great friend of the shop) Eimear McBride's brand new novel The City Changes Its Face.
‘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.
Eimear will be in conversation with Henry Layte of The Book Hive — who, as some of you may know, discovered and published Eimear's first book, A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing.
Eimear McBride's first novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing took nine years to find a publisher and subsequently received a number of awards, including the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, and the Goldsmiths Prize. Her second novel The Lesser Bohemians won the 2017 James Tait Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. In 2017 she was awarded the inaugural Creative Fellowship of the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading. In a 2018 Times Literary Supplement poll of 200 critics, academics and fiction writers, McBride was named one of the ten best British and Irish novelists writing today.
This event is made possible by the generosity of the Assembly House Trust.
The City Changes Its Face: Eimear McBride in conversation
Thursday 13th February
The Noverre Ballroom
The Assembly House, Theatre Street, Norwich
6:30pm for a 7:00pm start
£5
