大象传媒

A story of duty, love and a girl in the 1950s who crossed the ocean from Ireland for a new life in New York.

Colm Toibin's novel opens in the small town of Enniscorthy in the south east of Ireland in the early 1950s.

Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who can find no work. Her three brothers have already left to seek their fortunes in England - she and her sister Rose and her widowed mother are all that remain at home.

Omnibus of the first five of ten parts abridged by Sally Marmion.

Read by Niamh Cusack.

Producer: Di Speirs

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in May 2009.