1990s London. An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama and falls violently in love with an older actor. While she is naive and thrilled by life in the big city, he is haunted by demons, and the clamorous relationship that ensues risks undoing them both.

Paperback edition of the second novel from the Irish author of "A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing", which won five literary awards, including the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. 'Eimear McBride is that old-fashioned thing, a genius, in that she writes truth-spilling, uncompromising and brilliant prose' Anne Enright