Book 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.
Claire Keegan was born in 1968. Her first collection of short
stories, Antarctica, received the Rooney Prize for Literature, and
announced her as an exceptionally gifted and versatile writer of
contemporary fiction. Her second short story collection, Walk the Blue
Fields, was published to enormous critical acclaim in 2007 and won her
the 2008 Edge Hill Prize for Short Stories. Claire Keegan lives in
County Louth, Ireland.
