Monday, July 28, 2025

Long Island by Colm Toibin

Eilis Lacey is visited at home by a man who claims his wife is pregnant with her husband Tony's child.  The man also claims that he plans to deposit the child on her doorstep when it is born.  As the due date approaches and her mother-in-law makes plan to raise the child, Eilis returns to her native Ireland and begins a romance with her former boyfriend.

The book was good, but I'm subtracting half a star for the incomplete ending.  Perhaps there is a follow-up novel planned.  This was also the second book featuring these characters.  I did not read the first, but saw the movie years ago so I had the general gist of the story.

3.5 stars.

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