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Narrated by:
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Aoife McMahon
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By:
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Claire Keegan
About this listen
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.
©2021 Claire Keegan (P)2021 Faber & FaberWhat listeners say about Foster
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- deborah boerne
- 08-10-2023
Touching and beautifully crafted
Such a gem of a story. Perfect. She is a wonderful writer. Will read more of her work
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- Cath
- 12-11-2022
What a joy!
A beautifully detailed story. A joy to listen to. I felt like I was right there.
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- Christine Torbey
- 23-11-2024
Great storytelling
Beautifully written with great characters. Also beautifully read with the Irish accent. Too short. Would have made a great novel.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-01-2022
very short but very sweet
an evocative story beautifully told. loved the reader as well. she really brought it alive
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- Cath
- 05-07-2023
Simply beautiful
I was completely drawn into this story. Wonderful storytelling from both author and narrator. I am rarely compelled to leave a review and wholeheartedly recommended this book.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-10-2024
Unbelievable understanding of love and loss
Impossible to believe such a story of love and loss can be told so utterly completely in such a short sorry. It will stay with me as much as the reading of the story and the film
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- Christine Campbell
- 11-10-2022
dear little story
Aoife McMahon was again a good choice for narrating this brief and much loved time in a young girl's life when she is sent away for foster care with an elderly couple. Her poorly-off family are unable financially or emotionally to provide for their ever-growing brood of children and with another baby due imminently fostering a daughter out was the path they took to help them, one where the girl finds rare and genuine care before returning home.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-02-2023
Simple and touching story
The story is simple and captures a moment in time in rural Ireland. Wonderful to listen to before or after seeing the movie adaptation “An Cailín Ciúin”.
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- Noinam
- 01-11-2024
Snippets of perfection
This is the second Claire Keegan short story I’ve listened to. How she manages to tell such stories with so few words, I have no idea. But she does. A true wordsmith.
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- robert s.
- 11-09-2022
Moving and beautiful.
This short story is beautifully told from the perspective of a child experiencing unconditional love for the first time.
The movie is a must see if you get the opportunity!
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