A MUSTREAD NOVEL OF 2025 IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, STYLIST, AND MANY OTHERSOne of the finest writers at work today. ANNE ENRIGHTMcBride is a cartographer of the secret self, guiding us towards hidden treasure. CLAIRE KILROYEimear McBride does extraordinary things with language . . . she breaks every rule in the grammar book and gleefully gets away with it. GUARDIANA typical McBride work. Praise doesnt come much higher. FINANCIAL TIMESSo, 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.Its 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. Stephens teenage daughter has reappeared, while Eily has made a choice, the consequences of which she cannot outrun. Now they face a reckoning for all thats 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.

Binding: Paperback;336 pages; Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 379.45 g; Dimensions: 198 x 129

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