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Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín: 9. Being Rose's Ghost

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9. Being Rose's Ghost

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín, 9. Being Rose's Ghost

Following her sister's death, Eilis returns to her lonely mother for a month's visit.

Visiting her lonely mother, Eilis struggles with her last action in America and the lure of Enniscorthy. Read by Niamh Cusack.

Following her sister's tragic death, Eilis has returned to Enniscorthy and to her lonely mother, for a month's visit. 

Once there it is hard to tell the truth about her last action in America, and harder still to resist the lure of the familiar.

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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