Book of the Week with Waterstones of King’s Lynn is Long Island by Colm Tóibín

In our weekly look at books, we focus on a “sublime, long-awaited sequel” to a modern masterpiece.

Waterstones says Long Island by Colm Tóibín 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.

Dubbed “the love story of the century”, it has been named the bookstore’s Fiction of the Month for June.

A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello’s door on Long Island, and in that moment, everything changes.

Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn - perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future.

And yet this stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created.

For the first time in years, she suddenly feels very far from home, and the revelation will see her turn towards Ireland once again.

Back to her mother, back to the town and the people she had chosen to leave behind.

Did she make the wrong choice marrying Tony all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?

Top Ten Chart with Waterstones of Norfolk Street, in Lynn:

1. The Bastwick Testament – David Blake

2. Never Flinch – Stephen King

3. We Solve Murders - Richard Osman

4. Raising Hare – Chloe Dalton

5. Long Island – Colm Toibin

6. King’s Lynn: A Potted History – Paul Richards

7. There Are Rivers In The Sky – Elif Shafak

8. The Glassmaker – Tracy Chevalier

9. The Familiar – Leigh Bardugo

10. Belsay – LJ Ross