Colm Toibin's Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one
woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. The book
that inspired the major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan. It
is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many
young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister
arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go,
leaving behind her family and her home for the first time. Arriving
in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded
of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home - and homesick.
And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and
perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to
Ireland. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a
devastating choice between duty and one great love. *** 'With this
elating and humane novel, Colm Toibin has produced a masterwork'
Sunday Times 'Unforgettable' Spectator 'The most compelling and
moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time' Zoe
Heller Guardian, Books of the Year 'Magnificent' Sunday Telegraph
'A work of such skill, understatement and sly jewelled merriment
could haunt your life' Ali Smith TLS, Books of the Year When you
are finished why not read the companion novel Nora Webster.
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