{"product_id":"9781761568060","title":"Long Island","description":"Author: Colm Tóibín\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781761568060\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Pan Macmillan Australia\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 29 Apr 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 368 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen an Irishman knocks on Eilis Fiorello's door on Long Island, the news he brings looks set to jeopardize the stability of the family life she and her husband Tony have built together. The arrival of this stranger will send Eilis back to Ireland and to the people she had left behind twenty years earlier. Did she make the wrong choice leaving? Is it too late now to take a different path? \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLong Island\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 'Wonderful' Elizabeth Strout 'Intensely moving' Douglas Stuart 'Magnificent' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e 'The work of a writer at the height of his considerable powers, a story of ordinary lives that contains multitudes' \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e 'Eilis from Brooklyn is thoroughly grownup now. She's such a living creation: distinctive, guarded, forceful, watchful' \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e 'Tóibín dramatizes secrecy and its consequences better than almost any other contemporary novelist' \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e 'Colm Tóibín's rich talents as a novelist need no further enumerating. You just have to read everything he writes' \u003ci\u003eThe New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e 'Heartbreaking, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Tóibín at his best' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e 'In \u003ci\u003eLong Island\u003c\/i\u003e, Colm Tóibín has finally given us a follow-up to Brooklyn . . . I read it in one sitting, thrilled to be back with the characters that captivated me last time' \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e 'An entrancing follow-up to \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, a moving coming-of-age story and a portrait of the plucky immigrants who fuelled America's post-war boom' \u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e 'Somehow Tóibín makes a book like this - sparely written, elliptical, ambiguous - as immersive as the richly detailed biographical novels that he has written in recent years. He is a magician' \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46524190261406,"sku":"TLD-9781761568060","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781761568060.jpg?v=1771389843","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781761568060","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}