Colm Tóibín | Long Island
Recorded: Mon 27 May 2024
Duration: 1 hr
Colm Tóibín | Long Island
One Off Event - May 2024
‘Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Tóibín at his best‘ – The Times
Join us in welcoming the brilliant Colm Tóibín for the much anticipated sequel to Brooklyn. Long Island is a masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever.
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?
In conversation with Alex Clark
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