Long Island by Colm Tóibín 2

When an Irishman knocks on Eilis Fiorello's door on Long Island, the news he brings looks set to jeopardize the stability of the family life she and her husband Tony have built together. The arrival of this stranger will send Eilis back to Ireland and to the people she had left behind twenty years earlier. Did she make the wrong choice leaving? Is it too late now to take a different path?

Praise for Long IslandÂ

'Wonderful' Elizabeth Strout

'Intensely moving' Douglas Stuart 'Magnificent' The TimesÂ

'The work of a writer at the height of his considerable powers, a story of ordinary lives that contains multitudes' The GuardianÂ

'Eilis from Brooklyn is thoroughly grownup now. She's such a living creation: distinctive, guarded, forceful, watchful' The ObserverÂ

'Tóibín dramatizes secrecy and its consequences better than almost any other contemporary novelist' The Sunday TimesÂ

'Colm Tóibín's rich talents as a novelist need no further enumerating. You just have to read everything he writes' The New StatesmanÂ

'Heartbreaking, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Tóibín at his best' The TimesÂ

'In Long Island, Colm Tóibín has finally given us a follow-up to Brooklyn . . . I read it in one sitting, thrilled to be back with the characters that captivated me last time' The ObserverÂ

'An entrancing follow-up to Brooklyn, a moving coming-of-age story and a portrait of the plucky immigrants who fuelled America's post-war boom' The EconomistÂ

'Somehow Tóibín makes a book like this - sparely written, elliptical, ambiguous - as immersive as the richly detailed biographical novels that he has written in recent years. He is a magician' TLSÂ