Foster
Ratings72
Average rating4.4
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Ratings72
Average rating4.4
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 affection she has not known before, and slowly she begins to blossom in their care. But when a secret is suddenly revealed, she realizes how fragile her idyll is.
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A slice of life masterpiece, definitely a book you'd like to take with you everywhere and read over and over. Such comfort it gives.
There is no literary joy quite like the joy of an author dropping you into a short story in the middle of a scene engrossing you in the narrative in such a way that most authors are not able to do in pages and pages and pages. I am always in AWE when an author can make me care so deeply about the characters in just a couple of pages. There is an instant connect in a great short story with the narrative that is so soul-satisfying. All the stars in the world.
A very very short book (especially if you are listening to an audiobook) but very well written. This is a great example of saying a lot using few words. Writing is powerful at the same time very tender.
I am looking forward to read more of Claire Keegan now!
“It's too good, she is. She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them, hoping she'll not be disappointed but she sometimes is.” ― Claire Keegan
“You don't ever have to say anything,” he says. “Always remember that as a thing you need never do. Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.”
