“One of the finest writers at work today.” Anne Enright

Eimear McBride’s trailblazing and vivid style is beautiful, outrageous and heartbreaking. She joins ILFD to discuss her new novel, The City Changes Its Face, and the forces that shape her writing.

An intimate, immersive and intense story of passion, family and jealousy The City Changes Its Face explores a love affair tested to its limits. It was a must-read novel of 2025 in the Irish Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Financial Times, Stylist and many others.

Eimear McBride’s previous novels are A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, The Lesser Bohemians, and Strange Hotel. 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 Group Irish Novel of the Year, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

In conversation with literary journalist and editor Alex Clark.

Duration: 1 hour