![]() ![]() ![]() Her relationship evolves further and Tony brings Eilis to meet his family. ![]() Eilis qualifies easily from her night school course. Eilis meets and falls in love with a young Italian plumber named Tony Fiorello at local Friday night dances. Letters from Rose and her mother bring about severe homesickness but soon she begins to settle into a routine. Her initial experiences working in a boring job and living in a repressive boardinghouse, run by the strict Mrs Madge Kehoe, make her doubt her initial decision. Because of this she immigrates to Brooklyn, New York and takes up a job in a department store while undertaking night classes in bookkeeping. Her older sister Rose organises a meeting with a Catholic priest called Father Flood on a visit from New York City, who tells Eilis of the wonderful opportunities awaiting her in New York with excellent employment prospects. Plot summary Įilis Lacey is a young woman who is unable to find work in 1950s Ireland. In 2012, The Observer named it as one of "The 10 best historical novels". It won the 2009 Costa Novel Award, was shortlisted for the 2011 International Dublin Literary Award and was longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize. ![]() Brooklyn is a 2009 novel by Irish author Colm Tóibín. ![]()
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