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Brooklyn
by Colm Toibin is a bittersweet story of a young Irish girl's life in far away Brooklyn in 1950s post WWII United States.
Eilis Lacey makes a great fist of living without friends or family in Brooklyn finding fulfilment in her accountancy career and love with someone who, like her, is far from home. I especially admired the way Elish negotiated her burgeoning relationships with her lover's parents and brothers as well as the sometimes prickly situations with the American women in her ...more
Eilis Lacey makes a great fist of living without friends or family in Brooklyn finding fulfilment in her accountancy career and love with someone who, like her, is far from home. I especially admired the way Elish negotiated her burgeoning relationships with her lover's parents and brothers as well as the sometimes prickly situations with the American women in her ...more
