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Home to mother: Long Island, by Colm Toibín, reviewed

The sequel to Brooklyn sees Eilis leave New York shocked and angry, and return to Enniscorthy – where everything is outwardly calmer, but much has changed

18 May 2024

9:00 AM

18 May 2024

9:00 AM

Long Island Colm Toibin

Picador, pp.304, 20

Colm Toibin’s new novel starts with a bang – or rather, the results of one. It is only on the second page that an Irishman arrives at Eilis Fiorello’s house and threatens to leave his wife’s love child on her doorstep, it being also the doorstep of the father, Tony.

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