{"id":185748,"date":"2025-06-15T07:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/185748\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T07:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T07:01:08","slug":"book-of-the-week-with-waterstones-of-kings-lynn-is-long-island-by-colm-toibin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/185748\/","title":{"rendered":"Book of the Week with Waterstones of King\u2019s Lynn is Long Island by Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>In our weekly look at books, we focus on a \u201csublime, long-awaited sequel\u201d to a modern masterpiece.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Waterstones says Long Island by Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn is an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed \u201cthe love story of the century\u201d, it has been named the bookstore\u2019s Fiction of the Month for June.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 498 753\" alt=\"Long Island by Colm T&#xF3;ib&#xED;n\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"K7M3JSBROH5ZH51833QB.jpg\" data-ar=\"0.66\"\/>Long Island by Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn<\/p>\n<p>A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello\u2019s door on Long Island, and in that moment, everything changes.<\/p>\n<p>Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn &#8211; perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future.<\/p>\n<p>And yet this stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in years, she suddenly feels very far from home, and the revelation will see her turn towards Ireland once again.<\/p>\n<p>Back to her mother, back to the town and the people she had chosen to leave behind.<\/p>\n<p>Did she make the wrong choice marrying Tony all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Ten Chart with Waterstones of Norfolk Street, in Lynn:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. The Bastwick Testament \u2013 David Blake<\/p>\n<p>2. Never Flinch \u2013 Stephen King<\/p>\n<p>3. We Solve Murders &#8211; Richard Osman<\/p>\n<p>4. Raising Hare \u2013 Chloe Dalton<\/p>\n<p>5. Long Island \u2013 Colm Toibin<\/p>\n<p>6. King\u2019s Lynn: A Potted History \u2013 Paul Richards<\/p>\n<p>7. There Are Rivers In The Sky \u2013 Elif Shafak<\/p>\n<p>8. The Glassmaker \u2013 Tracy Chevalier<\/p>\n<p>9. The Familiar \u2013 Leigh Bardugo<\/p>\n<p>10. Belsay \u2013 LJ Ross<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In our weekly look at books, we focus on a \u201csublime, long-awaited sequel\u201d to a modern masterpiece. Waterstones&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,609,391,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-185748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-human-interest","11":"tag-opinion","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114686098681619851","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}