{"product_id":"colm-toibin-long-island-2024-paperback","title":"Colm Toibin: Long Island [2024] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe sequel to Colm Toibin's prize-winning, bestselling novel \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello's door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn - perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd yet this stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created. For the first time in years she suddenly feels very far from home and the revelation will see her turn towards Ireland once again. Back to her mother. Back to the town and the people she had chosen to leave behind. Did she make the wrong choice marrying Tony all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLong Island\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e is Colm Toibin's masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'With this elating and humane novel, Colm Toibin has produced a masterwork' -\u003ci\u003e The\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time' - Zoe Heller, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A work of such skill, understatement and sly jewelled merriment could haunt your life' - Ali Smith, \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Suffused with humane depth, funny, affecting, deftly plotted . . . a novel of magnificent accomplishment' - Peter Kemp, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Novel of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Toibin, Colm","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":47583342133587,"sku":"9781035029457","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Good","offer_id":49158757351763,"sku":"XG81035029457","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48783022063955,"sku":"XV81035029457","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":48874564256083,"sku":"XE81035029457","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/toibin-colm-colm-toibin-long-island-2024-paperback-57196665831763.jpg?v=1727840824","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/colm-toibin-long-island-2024-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}