Asked recently why he had chosen to write a sequel to his much-loved 2009 novel, Brooklyn, Colm Toibin said, The answer is why not? The other answer is that there are very good reasons not...in general sequels tend to be pale. Not this one.
Twenty years have passed since Eilis sailed for America for the second time, leaving local Enniscorthy barman Jim Farrell to return to Brooklyn and Tony Fiorello, the plumber to whom she was already secretly married. Since then she has not once gone back to Ireland.
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