![]() But then fate intervenes: a family crisis back home forces Eilis to make a choice between the past and the future, the old world and the new. It seems her dream is truly becoming a reality. Via a church contact, he arranges for Eilis to travel to America where a job opportunity has arisen in New York with a reputable "merchant of Italian origin".Įilis finds lodgings in an eccentric boarding house and ekes out an existence in the cosmopolitan melting pot that is 1950s Brooklyn, impressing her employer, outwitting her landlady, and even falling in love. Yet her ambition cannot be hidden and soon is noted by the Parish Priest, Father Flood. Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis' gifts are of a more practical nature: she has a head for numbers, and is a loving and dutiful daughter. "The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time" Guardian, Books of the Year NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, WINNER OF THE BAFTA FOR BEST BRITISH FILM ![]()
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