num_pages: 89
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 Keegans great accomplishment and talent.
language: English
title: Foster
publisher: Faber & Faber