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Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín: 3. Letters from Home

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3. Letters from Home

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

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Letters from home remind Eilis of just what she is missing.

Eilis has new lodgings and a new job, but letters remind her of just what she's missing back in Ireland. Read by Niamh Cusack.

Eilis has lodgings with an Irish landlady and a job on the shop floor of a department store. 

Every day a whole world of things are new. 

But letters remind her of just what she is missing...

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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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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