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Long Island
- Narrated by: Jessie Buckley
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Summary
Read by Olivier Award winner and Oscar nominee, Jessie Buckley, and featuring an exclusive audio Q&A.
'Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Tóibín at his best' - The Times
'A masterful novel full of longing and regret . . . Intensely moving and yet full of restraint' - Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain
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Long Island is Colm Tóibín’s masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating audiobook that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever. The sequel to Colm Tóibín's prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn.
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?
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One of Buckley's narrating gifts is her ability to project Lacey's silences. She allows intimate conversations to unfold with quiet immediacy. The result is a performance that fits perfectly the humanity of Tóibín's cast. It is so winning and full of depth that the most evocative passages stand alone as their own moments. Listeners can't help but be drawn close. - AudioFile
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- Anon
- 09-06-24
A rich, absorbing and memorable story.
This was a marvellously rich and absorbing story. Full of diverse and believable characters whose lives dissect, transform and alter the course of others around them.
The narration was so perfect! The characters came alive through the mastery of the various accents and the capturing of individual personalities. The pace was also perfect and I felt I was really there alongside every character as they appeared.
A huge thank you to the author and narrator for such mastery. Outstanding!
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- Mavis Hagan
- 02-06-24
Perfect prose & divine narration
I was in love with every character
The story unfolded so gently and then came the perfect ending…
Genius
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- EllaBella
- 15-06-24
Excellent story, good narration (but several mispronounciations...)
Colm Toibín has done it again with a worthy sequel to the excellent Brooklyn. Heart-achingly and brilliantly written, full of false starts, secrets, histories, commitments, decisions deferred - brutal, sad and wonderful. I'm from the area in a Ireland it depicts and it perfectly evokes the small town pettiness and desperation of 70s rural-ish Ireland. Jesse Buckley's narration is good but there are far too many mispronounciations of placenames, and the accents are often just not appropriate to the locality. Some placenames are almost unrecognisable... How is this possible? A frustration that did get in my way while otherwise enjoying this excellent book.
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- Fiona
- 28-06-24
Brilliant narration by Jessie Buckley
Completely immersed in this human story by Jessie Buckley’s performance. I thought I was listening to all the characters. Audiobooks at their best.
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- Kate Winstone
- 25-07-24
Jessie Buckley brings all of these people to life!
I could write essays but the book is a masterpiece on its own but could not imagine it so well as the reading provides the whole! The agony of leaving a home for so long and still being discombobulated by how little it has changed but she has is so well shown without ever being said. There is such humour but also pathos on every page and I still find myself wondering if it could all have been different- and better (or worse)! That is life! Brilliant.
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- K
- 26-07-24
Irish characters and the complexity of them
A beautiful book, so well narrated, a love story which grips you to the end but also humorous and intense.
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- MARTHA
- 04-06-24
Flawless enjoyed every second
Brilliantly written, sensitive, gentle, funny.
Oh Jessie Buckley you are a triumph, every nuance delivered with such care and humour.
I’ll be reading some more Colm Toibin shortly
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- Ann Huijing
- 03-07-24
Wonderful!
What a good book and what an achievement to write a sequel to Brooklyn that is even better than that book. The narrator brings it all to life in a fantastic way. I enjoyed every minute.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-06-24
Beautiful storytelling
Loved catching up with what had happened since Eilish went back to America.
Colm is a magnificent storyteller and the dialogue is pitch perfect. A truly engrossing story.
Only complaints - the accent Jessie uses to narrate is completely wrong for Wexford and many of the place names are incorrect. Whilst I can overlook the accent, the place names really should have been easy to correct.
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- Elizabeth Balcombec
- 25-07-24
Thought provoking
I thoroughly enjoyed Jessie Buckley’s narration of this deeply affecting story, she brought the characters to life so much so that I felt myself becoming totally engaged with them .Such a treat to listen to this absorbing and complex account of human relationships.
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