A review by spinstah
The South by Colm Tóibín

2.0

I didn't like this as much as Brooklyn, so if you are interested in reading some of TOibin's work, I wouldn't recommend starting with this one. The South follows a young woman who abandons her family in Ireland and takes up with a man in Barcelona. We watch as she essentially gets herself tangled up in a very similarly dissatisfying life as the one that she left. Only at the very end of the book (as she is much older) does she finally seem to find herself and feel some contentment.

I must confess that even though I have marked this as read, I haven't quite managed to finish it, though I am not far off the mark!