Foster
- ISBN-10
- 080216014X
- ISBN-13
- 9780802160140
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 96
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022-11
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Author
- Claire Keegan
Description
A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. And then a secret is revealed and suddenly, she realizes how fragile her idyll is. Winner of the Davy Byrnes Memorial Prize, Foster is now published in a revised and expanded version. Beautiful, sad and eerie, it is a story of astonishing emotional depth, showcasing Claire Keegan's great accomplishment and talent.
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