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CLAIRE KEEGAN

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Publisher:
FABER & FABER
Year of publication:
2022
Subject:
Contemporary fiction
ISBN:
978-0-571-37914-9
Pages:
96
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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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