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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
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK
Long Island is Colm Tóibín’s masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever.
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?
The sequel to Colm Tóibín's prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn.
Critic reviews
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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- dean stewart
- 17-06-24
Characterisation and scale
This book reminded me that we are still blessed with magnificent storytellers and it is beautifully brought to life by an actor at the top of her game.
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- Carol-Anne
- 02-06-24
Beautifully written sequel
What can I say except read it, or listen to it!! Beautifully crafted and socks you in immediately that I could barely breathe. Have a box of tissues at the ready!
A few niggles about Jessie Buckley's narration - mispronounciation of some place names surprised me but overall excellent.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-06-24
Brilliant
Listened to Brooklyn first , then Long Island ( I had forgotten how much I loved the characters )
Narration was superb … truly amazing Jesse Buckley absolutely did Long Island justice.
The storyline was far from predictable the characters are complex and so well written , I just did not want this to end .
I have everything crossed that Colm Toibin is busy writing the next part to this beautiful story … 10 out of 10 .
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- Agsiopadoireacht
- 16-06-24
Beautiful book, so well read
I really enjoyed this audiobook, I particularly loved Mrs Lacey interpretation. it was hilarious. nice read, good holiday book.
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- Caroline Butler
- 19-06-24
I loved it!
The story and characters are great! Loved Jessie Buckley as a narrator also. A real ‘page turner’.
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- Dymps
- 06-06-24
A triumph for Jessie Buckley
The narration of this wonderful novel is absolutely superb.Jessie Buckley seems effortlessly to move from character to character and the listener knows immediately who is talking.My favourite was Mrs Lacey as she reminded me of my Irish grandmother.
Brilliant novel and narration
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- Anonymous User
- 29-06-24
Brilliant
Amazing narration and a wonderful story. I hugely enjoyed listening to Long Island. Jessie Buckley is a fantastic narrator.
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- glenfarne
- 30-05-24
The Characters
loved the audio version of this book,felt I knew all the characters personally and enjoyed Jessie Buckley reading it.Nothing to dislike
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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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- 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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