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Keegan's fiction makes most novels look too fancy; her short stories make most prose seem too plain. Her inner and outer landscapes, the palpable and the imagined, are all of a piece. You think you are just looking - it turns out you are travelling. -- London Review of Books

Keegan writes with such grace and accuracy that it is impossible not to be drawn into each world she creates. ― Big Issue

'It's a pleasure to read a writer who has truly grasped the art of the short story, and can capture the soul of its subject in such a short space. ― Irish Mail on Sunday

Simply put, Claire Keegan is one of the greatest fiction writers in the world. -- George Saunders

A small miracle. ― Sunday Times

A thing of finely honed beauty. ― Guardian

A real jewel. ― Irish Independent

Foster confirms Claire Keegan's talent. She creates luminous effects with spare material, so every line seems to be a lesson in the perfect deployment of both style and emotion. -- Hilary Mantel

A masterly combination of things pregnant and poised, frozen and in flux. ― Times Literary Supplement

Foster is a thing of finely honed beauty and cumulative power, a story that deals in suggestion, exactitude and telling detail. It has the sure-footedness of great short story writing and a sense of confidence in the sparseness of the form that extends from the writer to the reader, allowing all that is not said to hold sway on the imagination. ― Observer

A haunting, crafted narrative making superb use of the first-person voice and of an urgent present tense. It has beauty, harshness, menace and the spine of steel worthy of high art ... There is no disputing that the greater the writing, the more may be confidently left unsaid. Keegan is a realist who has mastered describing the chaos of feeling. Humanity at its most vulnerable fills the silences in Foster , an unsentimental story that triumphs through a subtle ambivalence that stalks and shapes the emerging emotional intelligence of the narrator. -- Eileen Battersby ― Irish Times

Short stories are sometimes called gems. This one is as lyrical as poetry yet so concentrated it's a novel in miniature. A real jewel. ― Irish Independent

'Foster is a beautifully paced and delicately wrought tale ... Claire Keegan has truly inhabited the mind of a child and crafted a story that will stay with you long after the final page has been read.' ― Sunday Express

As good as Chekhov. -- David Mitchell

An international bestseller and one of The Times’ “Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century,” Claire Keegan’s piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US

It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas’ house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household―where everything is so well tended to―and this summer must soon come to an end.

Winner of the prestigious Davy Byrnes Award and published in an abridged version in the New Yorker,this internationally bestselling contemporary classic is now available for the first time in the US in a full, standalone edition. A story of astonishing emotional depth, Foster showcases Claire Keegan’s great talent and secures her reputation as one of our most important storytellers.