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Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín: 2. Farewell and Adieu

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2. Farewell and Adieu

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

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Prompted by a priest, Rose sets about organising her younger sister.

Prompted by a priest, Rose organises America-bound Eilis for her new life and job in a Brooklyn store. Read by Niamh Cusack.

Prompted by a priest, Father Flood, home from America for a holiday, Rose sets about organising her younger sister. 

Almost before she knows it, or has had time to say goodbye, Eilis is crossing the Atlantic.

She's heading for a job on the shop-floor of a Brooklyn department store, lodgings with an Irish landlady- and a brand new life.

Colm Tóibín's masterful novel Brooklyn, a story of duty and love.

Abridged by Sally Marmion. 

Read by Niamh Cusack.

Producer:  Di Speirs 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2009.

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Niamh Cusack reads the novel by Colm Tóibín.

Niamh Cusack reads Colm Tóibín's story of duty, love and a girl who moved from the south of Ireland to seek a new life in New York in the 1950s.

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