Brooklyn
Eilis Lacey, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Saoirse Ronan
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By:
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Colm Tóibín
About this listen
'I couldn't be more privileged to bring this beautiful book to life...' Saoirse Ronan
'I have long been a big admirer of Saoirse Ronan's work... she has made the words come alive with her voice.' Colm Tóibín
Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis' gifts are of a more practical nature: she has a head for numbers, and is a loving and dutiful daughter. Yet her ambition cannot be hidden and soon is noted by the Parish Priest, Father Flood. Via a church contact, he arranges for Eilis to travel to America where a job opportunity has arisen in New York with a reputable 'merchant of Italian origin'.
Eilis finds lodgings in an eccentric boarding house and ekes out an existence in the cosmopolitan melting pot that is 1950s Brooklyn, impressing her employer, outwitting her landlady, and even falling in love. It seems her dream is truly becoming a reality. But then fate intervenes: a family crisis back home forces Eilis to make a choice between the past and the future, the old world and the new.
Told with a masterful and elegant simplicity, Brooklyn is a sublime Trans-Atlantic coming-of-age story by one of the UK's greatest living writers.
Praise for Brooklyn
'Tóibín's most beautifully executed novel to date' The Times Literary Supplement
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- Beverley Deeming
- 25-10-2024
One of my favourites
I understand why the story finished at the point it did. I just didn’t want it to end that’s all!
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