An intense story of passion jealousy and family from the trailblazing award-winning Eimear
McBride. "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." It'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. Eighteen 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?
Love rallies against life. Time tells truths. The city changes its face. A MUST-READ NOVEL OF
2025 IN THE GUARDIAN FINANCIAL TIMES IRISH TIMES SUNDAY TIMES STYLIST AND MANY OTHERS "One
of the finest writers at work today." - ANNE ENRIGHT "Eimear McBride does extraordinary things
with language...she breaks every rule in the grammar book and gleefully gets away with it." -
GUARDIAN
