The Reading Room · Hazel Reads Three
Love, later in life
Not the first time. Often the truer one.
Book 1 Long Island
Colm Tóibín
READ IT Eilis Lacey, twenty years after Brooklyn, back in Ireland with a marriage cracking. Quiet and merciless. Read it.
Book 2 Tom Lake
Ann Patchett
READ IT A mother tells her grown daughters, over a lockdown cherry harvest, about the man she loved before them. Serene and deep. Read it.
Book 3 Leaving
Roxana Robinson
READ IT Two people meet again in their sixties and fall, against every grown child's wishes. Later love, with real cost. Read it.
Now tell me what you’re reading. Have you read any of these? Or something better? Bring it to the Reading Room.
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