Brooklyn

By
Colm Toibin
Penguin Books Ltd
Colm Toibin's Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one
woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom.

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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