BrooklynAuthor: Toibin, Colm Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 4 March 2010 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom. Paperback 272 pages 197 x 128 x 17 196g A devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. Fall in love with Brooklyn ahead of its bestselling follow up, Long Island. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities

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