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Foster: by the Booker-shortlisted author of Small Things Like These

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Full Title:

Foster: by the Booker-shortlisted author of Small Things Like These

Contributors:

By (Author) Claire Keegan

ISBN:

9780571392599

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publication Date:

4th February 2025

UK Publication Date:

10th October 2024

Edition:

Main

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Dewey:

823.92

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

96

Dimensions:

Width 129mm, Height 198mm

Description

'A real jewel.' Irish Independent

'A small miracle.' Sunday Times

'A thing of finely honed beauty.' Guardian

'Thrilling.' Richard Ford

'As good as Chekhov.' David Mitchell

It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm, not 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. But in a house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers how fragile her idyll is.

Author Bio

Claire Keegan's stories are translated into more than thirty-five languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award and in 2020 was chosen by The Times as one of the top fifty works of fiction to be published in the twenty-first century. Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize, awarded for the best work of literature, regardless of form, to be published in the English language. It won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the Ambassadors' Award and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

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