books.google.co.uk - Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself. Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the years following World War Two. Though skilled...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Brooklyn.html?id=4mOrEoLlJQMC&q=smiled&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrooklyn