An intense story of passion, jealousy and family from the trailblazing, award-winning Eimear McBride.
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
'McBride is a cartographer of the secret self, guiding us towards hidden treasure.' CLAIRE KILROY
'Eimear McBride does extraordinary things with language . . . she breaks every rule in the grammar book and gleefully gets away with it.' GUARDIAN
'A typical McBride work. Praise doesn't come much higher.' FINANCIAL TIMES
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.
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
"Readers will be swept along by this entrancing tale of love and its many challenges."- Publishers Weekly
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.
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