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Highlights
- A most anticipated novel of 2025 in the Guardian, Financial Times, Irish Times, New Statesman, Independent, Sunday Times, and Stylist"One of the finest writers at work today.
- About the Author: 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.
- 336 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
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Book Synopsis
A most anticipated novel of 2025 in the Guardian, Financial Times, Irish Times, New Statesman, Independent, Sunday Times, and Stylist
"One of the finest writers at work today." ANNE ENRIGHT
"Her prose is as haunting and moving as music." ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN
"McBride is a cartographer of the secret self, guiding us towards hidden treasure." CLAIRE KILROY
"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.
Review Quotes
Praise for Eimear McBride
"Ms. McBride's brilliance lies in her arrangements of the glorious garble of language." - The Wall Street Journal
"One of our major novelists . . . the life here radiates through the pages and illuminates ours." - Guardian
"Blazingly daring." - James Wood, The New Yorker
"Nothing else feels so fresh, so radically new. Strange Hotel challenges and expands my sense of what art can do." - Garth Greenwell
"A writer of remarkable power and originality." - Times Literary Supplement
"Eimear McBride is that old-fashioned thing, a genius." - Anne Enright, Guardian
"Her writing has such glorious cadence that it should be read aloud." - The Times
"McBride is 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
About the Author
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.