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FINANCIAL TIMES IRISH TIMES SUNDAY TIMES AND STYLIST "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 "McBride is a
cartographer of the secret self guiding us towards hidden treasure."- CLAIRE KILROY 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.
