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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 Tóibín 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' Zoë 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 YearWhen you are finished why not read the companion novel Nora Webster.

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