{"product_id":"long-island-by-colm-toibin-9781761568060","title":"Long Island","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen an Irishman knocks on Eilis Fiorello's door on Long Island, the news he brings looks set to jeopardise 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePraise for Long Island\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWonderful\u003c\/i\u003e — Elizabeth Strout\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntensely moving\u003c\/i\u003e — Douglas Stuart\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMagnificent\u003c\/i\u003e — The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe work of a writer at the height of his considerable powers, a story of ordinary lives that contains multitudes — The Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEilis from \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e is thoroughly grownup now. She's such a living creation: distinctive, guarded, forceful, watchful — The Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTóibín dramatizes secrecy and its consequences better than almost any other contemporary novelist — The Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eColm Tóibín's rich talents as a novelist need no further enumerating. You just have to read everything he writes — The New Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHeartbreaking, wistfulness, cracking dialogue... This is Tóibín at his best — The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLong Island\u003c\/em\u003e, Colm Tóibín has finally given us a follow-up to \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e... I read it in one sitting, thrilled to be back with the characters that captivated me last time — The Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn 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 — The Economist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSomehow 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 — TLS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47976501641452,"sku":"9781761568060","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781761568060-long-island.jpg?v=1784680095","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/long-island-by-colm-toibin-9781761568060","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}