Long Island by Colm Tóibín is one of the most talked-about recent releases readers keep adding to their lists and it is easy to see why: eilis Lacey, twenty years on from Brooklyn, is pulled back to Ireland.
What it's about
Colm Toibin returns to Eilis Lacey, the heroine of Brooklyn, two decades later, when a shocking revelation about her marriage sends her back to the Irish town she left. With his trademark restraint and emotional precision, he charts the ache of roads not taken and homes you can never fully return to.
Why everyone's talking about it
As the sequel to the beloved, film-adapted Brooklyn, Long Island was one of the most anticipated literary releases of its year, a bestseller praised as a worthy, wrenching continuation.
The verdict, for now
If Brooklyn moved you, this quietly guts you and it stands strong even if you come fresh. Come for Eilis's return, stay for Toibin's mastery of everything left unsaid.
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