Lingering, exquisite and subtle 


Long Island by Colm Tóibín

Long Island by Colm Tóibín (2024) follows the critically acclaimed Brooklyn (2009), which saw Eilis Lacey return to America and her husband Tony after an unexpected romance in her rural Irish hometown of Enniscorthy. Now, it’s the mid-seventies, Eilis is in her forties, and after twenty years of building a life together, crisis hits, as we learn that Tony has fathered a baby with another woman. Eilis now faces a decision.


Perhaps tellingly. . .