Colm Toibin

Books Diaspora Fiction

Deception in Enniscorthy and Lindenhurst

When we left Eilis at the end of Colm Toibin’s lovely Brooklyn, she had just departed the small Irish town of Enniscorthy to return to her husband in New York; the Italian husband that no one in Ireland knew about,...

  • 18 August 2024
  • Susan
Books Fiction

Charming and distinctive

Although this is one of Toibin’s earlier novels, I had not previously read it; but it felt instantly familiar nevertheless, with his distinctive style. This one is set in Toibin’s own birth county, Wexford, in the southeast of Ireland. It...

  • 14 July 2021
  • Lisa
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