Strange Hotel
From the multi-award-winning author of the literary phenomenon A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, an exquisitely rendered and emotionally devastating meditation on love, loneliness, grief, and the possibilities for renewal.
A nameless woman enters a non-descript hotel room she's been in once before, many years ago. Though the room hasn't changed, she has, as have the dimensions of her life. As she goes on to occupy a series of hotel rooms around the world -- each of which reflects back some aspect of herself -- we begin to piece together the details of what transpires in these rooms, the rules of engagements she's put in place for herself and the men she sometimes meets, and the outlines of the absence she…
EIMEAR MCBRIDE grew up in the west of Ireland and trained at Drama Centre London before turning her attention to writing novels. Her books A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, The Lesser Bohemians, and Strange Hotel have won numerous awards respectively, including the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, The Goldsmiths Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In a 2018 Times Literary Supplement poll of 200 critics, Eimear was named one of the ten best British and Irish novelists writing today. Alongside writing novels, Eimear is an active screenwriter. Eimear has recently directed a short film titled A VERY SHORT FILM ABOUT LONGING, starring Joe Alwyn.
Strange Hotel
Eimear McBride
The Lesser Bohemians
Eimear McBride