Niamh Cusack reads the long-awaited and heart-breaking sequel to 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?

Today: when her mother-in-law threatens to adopt Tony's illegitimate baby, Eilis feels herself being called back to Ireland...

Author: Colm Tóibín
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Reader: Niamh Cusack
Producer: Justine Willett Show less