Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook release of Brooklyn by Colm Toibin, read by Niamh Cusack.

It is Ireland in the first 1950s as well as for Eilis Lacey, for a lot of young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. Therefore when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to NY, Eilis knows she must proceed, leaving behind her family members and her house for the very first time.

Arriving inside a packed lodging home in Brooklyn, Eilis can only become reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from house – and homesick. And just as she takes tentative actions towards friendship, as well as perhaps something even more, Eilis receives news which transmits her back again to Ireland. There she’ll be faced with a terrible problem – a damaging choice between responsibility and one great like.