9. Being Rose's Ghost

Following her sister's tragic death, Eilis has returned to Enniscorthy and to her lonely mother, for a month's visit.

Once there it is hard to tell the truth about her last action in America, and harder still to resist the lure of the familiar.

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.