It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home - and homesick. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love.

Brooklyn

Literature & Fiction

Colm. Toibin

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

A Guest at the Feast

Penguin/Viking

House of Names

Literary

VIKING

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-07-04 Pages: 112 Language: English Publisher: Penguin UK From the author of Brooklyn. in a voice that is both tender and filled with rage. The Testament of Mary tells the story of a cataclysmic event which led to an overpowering grief. For Mary. her son has been lost to the world. and now. living in exile and in fear. she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led to her sons brutal death. To her he was a vulnerable figure. surrounded by men who could not be trusted. living in a time of turmoil and change. As her life and her suffering begin to acquire the resonance of myth. Mary struggles to break the silence surrounding what she knows to have happened. In her effort to tell the truth in all its gnarled complexity. she slowly emerges as a figure of immense moral stature as well as a woman from history rendered now as fully human.

The Testament of Mary

Penguin

The authors have chosen the 194 books since 1950 that they consider to be the best. It includes some familiar names and some surprises. Witty and controversial, their aim is to encourage reading.

Modern Library : The Two Hundred Best Novels In English Since 1950

CARMEN CALLIL

United States

Picador

Helen's brother is dying, and with two of his friends she waits for the end in her grandmother's crumbling old house. Her mother and grandmother, after years of strife have come to an uneasy peace. The six of them, from different generations and beliefs, are forced to come to terms with each other.

The Blackwater lightship

Blackwater Lightship

Genre Fiction

Picador Australia

Blackwater Lightship (OME TPB)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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