I´d love to hear the views of other people on Brooklyn please
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I really enjoyed it! It was short and sweet. It was also very realistic!
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I was very dissapointed. it was an easy read but I felt it just finished too suddenly levaing us with no idea what happened to the characters.Couldn't relate to Eileen (her name?) at all
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I fully agree with you Claire ... very disappointing & I love Toibin usually but I felt he lost it on Brooklyn. I did'nt find the characters at all realistic or the ending convincing. Read Mothers & Sons recently & loved it (different genre I know but got my 10/10).
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Also disappointed in Brooklyn ....so much hype about it but it had a touch of Maeve Binchy to it.True to the era it was depicting in Ireland and New York but trying too hard
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Deno I'm not at all convinced it was true to its era ... I have doubts that in the Ireland of the 1950's an office girl, even if she was an accounts clerk, would have been playing golf with the bank mangers wife etc. Maybe Wexford was different but it certainly would not have happened in the West of Ireland & that left me feeling that the book lacked credibility.
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I really enjoyed this book although i wanted to give Eilis a shake at times. She struck me as someone who just wanted what she had right at that moment and resisted any sort of change - she didn't want to go to america in the first place, but eventually was happy when she got there - then didn't want to return to ireland but circumstances forced her - then once in ireland didn't want to return to america again! I wish the story went on a little longer and we found out what happened to her when she returned to Brooklyn and to Tony...
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