An Evening with Colm Toibin for Long Island: The long-awaited sequel to Brooklyn

Colm Tóibín is the author of ten previous novels, including The Master, Brooklyn, and The Magician. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Toibin was appointed the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022-2024.

He joins us for Long Island, the sequel to the prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn. Long Island is 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?