Description

Long Island is Colm Toibin’s masterpiece: a stunning novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and reignite a love once thought lost forever. The sequel to the beloved bestseller, Brooklyn.

A Book of the Year in The Times, Irish Times, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Independent, The Observer, The New Yorker, The Economist, The Daily Telegraph and The Financial Times.

The love story of the century

A 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.

And 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?

‘Riveting’ – Elizabeth Strout, author of Tell Me Everything
‘Masterful’ – Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain
‘Wonderful’ – Oprah Winfrey
‘Entrancing’ – The Economist
‘Magnificent’ – The Times
‘Exquisite’ – New York Times
‘Gorgeous’ – The Independent
‘Dazzling’ – The Financial Times
‘A masterclass’ – The Guardian

*Long Island was an instant Sunday Times bestseller w/c 27/5/24

Publisher Review

His best yet . . . It reads like the tensest of stage plays, but with all the pleasures of interiority that the novel form allows. I haven’t wanted to hug this many characters in a while — Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times and The Happy Couple With this elating and humane novel, Colm Toibin has produced a masterwork * Sunday Times, on Brooklyn * The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time — Zoe Heller, Guardian, Books of the Year, on Brooklyn A work of such skill, understatement and sly jewelled merriment could haunt your life — Ali Smith, TLS, Books of the Year, on Brooklyn Suffused with humane depth, funny, affecting, deftly plotted . . . a novel of magnificent accomplishment — Peter Kemp, Sunday Times, Novel of the Year, on Brooklyn