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Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín: 7. Coney Island

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7. Coney Island

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín, 7. Coney Island

Tony takes Eilis to Coney Island to celebrate her exam success.

Tony takes Eilis to Coney Island to celebrate her exam success, but her new happiness is short-lived. Read by Niamh Cusack.

Tony takes Eilis for a trip to Coney Island to celebrate her exam success but her new found happiness is short lived; news from home turns Eilis' American life sour.

Colm Tóibín's masterful novel Brooklyn, a story of duty, love and a girl who crossed the ocean for a new life in New York.

Abridged by Sally Marmion. 

Read by Niamh Cusack.

Producer:  Di Speirs 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2009.

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