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Feb 1, 2010 · Claire Keegan. 4.33. 87,239 ratings10,759 reviews. 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.
Oct 30, 2022 · Claire Keegan’s new novella sends a poor child into a childless home in southeast Ireland.
Nov 1, 2022 · The nameless narrator of Foster is a little girl whose parents, impoverished Catholic farmers already overwhelmed by too many children and the father's bad habits, farm her...
Feb 7, 2010 · Claire Keegan’s short story about a child, sent to stay with foster parents in rural Ireland while her mother gives birth, who discovers a tragic secret.
Nov 22, 2022 · Small in scope, Claire Keegan's 'Foster' packs an emotional wallop. Keegan is a writer who revels in the suspense of the unspoken, the held breath. Her new novella centers on a nameless...
"Foster" is a short story or novella by Irish author Claire Keegan. [1] [2] Plot. In 1981 Ireland, County Wexford, a girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm, while her mother gives birth. She has no notion of when she will return home.
Nov 5, 2022 · Set in rural Ireland in the early 1980s, it unfolds from the perspective of a young girl who is sent away for the summer to live with a foster family while her mother struggles to care for a...
Nov 1, 2022 · An international bestseller and one of The Times’ “Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century,” Claire Keegan’s piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US
Nov 1, 2022 · Review: The biggest, most intricately ambitious little story you’ll read this year. Claire Keegan’s slim novella, “Foster,” published in the U.S. this week, packs an outsized punch ...
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Nov 1, 2022 · An international bestseller and one of The Times’ “Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century,” Claire Keegan’s piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood,...
