AUDIENCE: For readers of Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy, Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation, Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Claire-Louise Bennett’s Pond, Max Porter’s Grief Is a Thing the Feathers, as well as fans of Sheila Heti, Elena Ferrante, and David Szalay.

ONE OF THE MOST ELECTRIFYING WRITERS AT WORK TODAY: McBride is also one of the most vital writers contributing to the larger cultural conversations about women’s desires and experiences.

MULTIPLE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR: Her debut novel won the Baileys Women’s Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, The Desmond Elliott Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Folio Prize.

EXCELLENT LITERARY CO-PUBLISHERS: FSG (US) and Faber and Faber (UK)

EIMEAR McBRIDE is the author of two novels: The Lesser Bohemians (James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and A Girl is a Half-formed Thing (Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, Irish Novel of the Year, the Goldsmiths Prize, and others). She was the inaugural creative fellow at the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading and occasionally writes for The Guardian, TLS, New Statesman, and the Irish Times. She lives in London.

Author Residence: Norwich, UK

Author Hometown: Liverpool, UK

Praise for Strange Hotel:

“This short, emotionally charged novel by the winner of the 2014 Women’s Prize For Fiction unfolds in funny, fierce prose; by its close, the future is beckoning hopefully.” —Eithne Farry, Event Magazine

“In Strange Hotel, a nameless woman’s voyage through a string of hotel rooms gradually reveals an inner world of striking tumult and depth, as her meditations draw her, and us, deeper into the unsettled tides of her own past. Eimear McBride has created a powerfully hypnotic novel of consciousness, one that traces the intricacies of thought and memory in prose so thrilling, so dagger-sharp, it makes the heart race.” ―Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel

“No writer currently working excites me more than Eimear McBride—in her writing of the body, in her radical reimagining of the sentence, in her invention of new intimacies. Nothing else feels so fresh, so radically new. Strange Hotel challenges and expands my sense of what art can do. Each of McBride’s novels feels like an event not just in English-language literature but in the English language itself.” —Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You

“Rich with mystery, complexity and seductive charm…. McBride [gives us] a beguiling, enigmatic heroine. Her short stays and brief flings provide tantalizing glimpses of who she is and how far she has traveled.” —StarTribune

“This new narrative is beautifully written. It is thoughtful, evocative, elegaic, honest and intelligent.” —Sharon Chisvin, Winnipeg Free Press

“The accretion of detail, of nuance, of language are at the heart of McBride’s work. And Strange Hotel, her third book, is a powerful demonstration of her ability to marshal words to peerless effect…. Strange Hotel is a finely controlled, complex and emotionally absorbing novel that manages to burrow deep into the heart of something essential about the human experiences of love and loss. That’s quite an achievement in so short a work.” —Carl Wilkinson, Financial Times