Last week our online Book Club launched with Colm Tóibín’s ‘Brooklyn’, and lots of you have contributed to the discussion. Here are some of the comments

I'd imagine Colm Tóibín won't be able to resist reading the comments. What a fascinating, potentially painful, potentially enlightening gift for a writer - a month of analysis and feedback from a rake of readers – Julian Gough

I was disappointed by the story, though it did seem to say an enormous amount about the lack of communication within Irish culture, as epitomised by the Lacey family – Michael O'Donnell

Delighted that an online book club has started. One is not tied to time or space – Margaret Dollard

I was quite surprised by the ending and look forward to asking him about it – Patricia Richardson

I told my aunt who left Ireland in 1937 about Brooklyn. She was supposed to be the lucky one picked from a family of six to go but she spent years envying her siblings left behind whereas they envied her lifestyle in America – Breda Iredale

I would love to know what it's like for a man to be writing a novel as a woman and how he gets into the boots of a female – Pamela Murray

I don't know if the character of Eilis was really credible and she irritated me a lot with her passivity – Catherine Rotte-Murray

It's a great idea to have the book club online. I am disabled, and find getting out and about difficult, so this is ideal for me – Shirley Martin

Brooklyn perhaps appeared rather slight at first, but on reflection perfectly encapuslated the claustrophobic mood of small town Ireland in the 1950s – Eleanor Fitzsimons

Mrs Keogh was a nosy, manipulative aul bitch. Couldn't you have throttled her? – Mairead Morrison

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