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Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín: 10. Torn in Two

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10. Torn in Two

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

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Back home to comfort her mother, Eilis is unable to resist the lure of the familiar.

Eilis is feeling unable to resist the lure of the familiar. Meanwhile Tony is waiting in Brooklyn. Concluded by Niamh Cusack.

Home for a holiday and to comfort her bereaved mother, Eilis has found herself unable to resist the lure of the familiar. 

Meanwhile Tony is waiting in Brooklyn.

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. 

Concluded 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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