Long Island: An unputdownable, searing love story – the Sunday Times bestselling sequel to Brooklyn

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Read by Oscar, Golden Globe and Olivier Award winner, Jessie Buckley (Hamnet, Wicked Little Letters), and featuring an exclusive audio Q&A.

'Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Tóibín at his best' - The Times
'A masterful novel full of longing and regret . . . Intensely moving and yet full of restraint' - Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain

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Long Island is Colm Tóibín’s masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating audiobook that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever. The sequel to Colm Tóibín's prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn.

A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello’s door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn - perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future.

And yet this stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created. For the first time in years she suddenly feels very far from home and the revelation will see her turn towards Ireland once again. Back to her mother. Back to the town and the people she had chosen to leave behind.

Did she make the wrong choice marrying Tony all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?

Read by Oscar, Golden Globe and Olivier Award winner, Jessie Buckley (Hamnet, Wicked Little Letters), and featuring an exclusive audio Q&A. 'Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Tóibín at his best' - The Times 'A masterful novel full of longing and regret . . . Intensely movi...

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6 reviews
Patrick Carton
August 7, 2024
9.15 y
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Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of several novels, including The Master, Brooklyn, Long Island, and The Magician, and two collections of stories. He has been three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Tóibín was appointed the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022-2024. Long Island is his eleventh novel.
Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of several novels, including The Master, Brooklyn, Long Island, and The Magician, and two collections of stories. He has been three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Tóibí...

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