The City Changes Its Face

Hardback Published on: 13/02/2025
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The City Changes Its Face
There is nobody quite like McBride
The City Changes Its Face explores the relationship between Eily, a young actress still in drama school, and Stephen, an established actor turned writer an... READ MORE
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In 1990s north London - grimy, grey, and even dirtier than now - a couple reexamine their two-year love affair in an effort to understand what went wrong - and why, in spite of the presence of love, the relationship seemed destined to break regardless. A moving examination of both the things that divide us and those which unite us.

Synopsis

From the winner of the Women's Prize - an intense story of a passionate love affair arriving at its first test.

A rainy Camden night, December 1996. 20-year-old Eily and 40-year-old Stephen retrace the course of their two-year love affair in search of what's gone wrong. Is it Stephen's reconnection with his long-lost teenage daughter, Grace? Or that he's a well-known actor while Eily's still at drama school? Maybe the autobiographical film he's just made has brought his old demons back to the surface? Or perhaps Eily's youth has led her into a mistake she doesn't know how to fix?

Intimate, experiential, and immersive, this is the story of what happens when it's love beyond question, but trouble comes along anyway.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • ISBN: 9780571384211
  • Number of pages: 336
  • Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm
  • Languages: English

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The City Changes Its Face
I Missed on This One
With so much praise heaped upon it, I felt I completely missed the boat on “The City Changes Its Face.” It has been described as a "difficult read," a sent... READ MORE
Michael Burke