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Foster
Foster
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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
A heartbreaking, haunting story of childhood, loss and love by one of Ireland's most acclaimed writers, author of the Booker-shortlisted Small Things Like These.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780571379149
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780571379149
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Foster
- Awdur / Author
- Keegan, Claire
- Current Price ex VAT
- £8.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £8.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Non-Stock Item - Ordered on request
- Availability Status (CY)
- Archebir yn ôl y galw
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2022-08-18
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 96 pages
- Size
- 129 × 198 mm; depth 6 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Nofelau a Storïau ar Gyfer Oedolion (yn Saesneg) | EN: Adult Fiction and Stories (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Ffuglen Lenyddol a Chyffredinol (yn Saesneg) | EN: General and Literary Fiction (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Claire Keegan's stories are translated into more than thirty 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 byThe 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,...
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
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.
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