Book review: Fractured story delicately and expertly woven with sheer immersive greatness

As a piece of writing 'The City Changes Its Face' is absolutely in a class of its own, with an inventive and often witty prose style telling a complex story in a spell-binding way that has a rare physicality about it

Eimear McBride burst onto the literary scene after taking nine years to find a publisher for her debut in 2013. Picture: Kat Green

• The City Changes Its Face 
• Eimear McBride 
• Faber, €14.99