Eimear McBride talks to Toby Lichtig

Explore a passionate love affair tested to its limits with Eimear McBride (A Girl is a Half-formed Thing). She talks to Toby Lichtig, fiction and politics editor of the Times Literary Supplement, about her trailblazing new novel, an intimate, experiential and immersive story of passion, jealousy and family.

London, 1995. Outside the filthy window, the city rushes by. But up in the flat, there is only Eily and Stephen, 19 and 39. The total obsession of new love. Eighteen months later in a rainy Camden night, Eily and Stephen retrace the course of their two-year romance now their world is merging with the commonplace and ties from the past are intruding.