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Long Island by Colm Toibin

1: 'I am not the father.'

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for 3 months

Niamh Cusack reads the heartbreaking sequel to Colm Toibin's bestselling novel, Brooklyn, set twenty years on.

Since leaving Brooklyn, Eilis and Tony have built a happy and secure life in Long Island. The future looks good - until one day a stranger knocks on the door, and everything changes.

Feeling very far from home, Eilis starts to question the life she's created. Her questions lead her back to Ireland, and to those she left behind, as she wonders whether it's too late to take a different path?

Author: Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Brooklyn, The Master and The Magician, and two collections of stories. He has been three times shortlisted
for the Booker Prize. Tóibín was appointed the Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022-2024.
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Reader: Niamh Cusack is an acclaimed stage and screen Irish actor.
Producer: Justine Willett Show less

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