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3. Letters from Home
Episode 3 of 10
Eilis has new lodgings and a new job, but letters remind her of just what she's missing back in Ireland. Read by Niamh Cusack.
Eilis has lodgings with an Irish landlady and a job on the shop floor of a department store.
Every day a whole world of things are new.
But letters remind her of just what she is missing...
Colm Tóibín's masterful novel Brooklyn, a story of duty, love and a girl who crossed the ocean for a new life in New York.
Abridged by Sally Marmion.
Read by Niamh Cusack.
Producer: Di Speirs
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2009.
Last on
Thu 16 May 202403:30
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