Long Island (Hardback)

Long Island is the best new novel I’ve read in years – and it’s as persuasive an argument in defence of the unique capability of the novel form as you could ever hope to find - Megan Nolan, Telegraph

You don't have to have read Brooklyn to enjoy the many pleasures of Long Island. It is a masterful novel full of longing and regret. A tale of lovers reconnecting, of compromise, and the settling that can come later in life. Intensely moving and yet full of restraint, I was sad to turn the final page - Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain

His best yet . . . It reads like the tensest of stage plays, but with all the pleasures of interiority that the novel form allows. I haven't wanted to hug this many characters in a while - Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times and The Happy Couple

Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Tóibín at his best - Robbie Millen, The Times

A masterful and uproariously entertaining book, glittering with all of Toibin's intelligence and humane wit, as compelling, passionate and quietly enigmatic as its unforgettable protagonist Eilis Lacey - Colin Barrett, author of Wild Houses

Colm Tóibín's heartrending follow-up to his beloved 2009 novel, Brooklyn, is the rare instance in which a sequel is every bit as good as the original - NPR

Exquisitely drawn. - The New York Times

Brooklyn and Long Island ... capture the decency and ordinariness of the characters as well as the deep emotional ruptures that drive them toward disorder. The confrontations between these people, so long delayed, feel momentous and hugely affecting. These pendant novels, I think, will be the fiction for which this wonderful writer is best remembered. - The Wall Street Journal

Toibin [is] a master of his art . . . exquisite. - The Los Angeles Times