![]() ![]() ![]() There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love. ![]() And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time.Īrriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. The book that inspired the major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo Colm Toibin's Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. ![]()
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