10: 'I can explain.'
With the news about Jim and Nancy's secret engagement now out, Eilis confronts Jim, as Niamh Cusack reads the final part of Colm Toibin's heart-rending sequel to Brooklyn.
The heartrending sequel to Brooklyn, set twenty years on, and read by Niamh Cusack.
Since leaving Brooklyn, Eilis and Tony have built a happy and secure life in Long Island. The future looks good - until one day a stranger knocks on the door, and everything changes.
Feeling very far from home, Eilis starts to question the life she's created. Her questions lead her back to Ireland, and to those she left behind, as she wonders whether it's too late to take a different path?
Today: with Eilis and the rest of the town knowing about Nancy and Jim's secret engagement, Eilis goes to confront Jim...
Author: Colm TóibÃn
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Reader: Niamh Cusack
Producer: Justine Willett
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