Embracing Emotions in a Summer of Secrets, Loss, and Unforgettable Love | 'Foster' by Claire Keegan

Foster - Claire Keegan - 2022
By: Claire Keegan
Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 11-01-22
Categories: Literature & Fiction, Coming of Age, Family Life, Small Town & Rural
Language: English
Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
Publisher's Summary
An international bestseller and one of the Times's "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.
©2010 Claire Keegan (P)2022 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

[@karinturkington2455]

Exquisitely read and, of course, exquisitely written. This is the most moving book I've ever heard (and read). I'm in awe. I will listen and re-read over and over again. Thank you to Claire Keegan for creating such a story and to Aoife McMahon, whose voice is perfect for this rendering.

[@AlbaCreativa]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@user-bn9kr6nz5h]

I’ve read and reread “Foster” many times and listened to several audiobook versions of the story, but Ms. McMahon’s performance is far and away the best I’ve heard. Even though I knew what was coming, I found myself getting misty-eyed in the final moments of her reading. Having the nameless little girl twice cry out “Daddy!” as an actual warning to John, rather than just as an expression of her love for him, is an interpretation I haven’t heard before, but it still conveys the message that the relationship between John and the little girl has grown into one of father and daughter over the summer. Which makes me believe that the Kinsellas will remain part of the child’s life, and that John and Edna won’t give up the chance they’ve been given to be parents again.
I’ve seen “An Cailín Ciúin”-“The Quiet Girl”-many times since it was first shown at my local independent cinema here in Kingston, Ontario last March, and what I’d really like to hear some day soon, before she gets too much older and her voice changes, is a reading of “Foster” by Catherine Clinch. Meaning no slight to Ms. McMahon, I think Miss Clinch is the natural choice to present this beautiful and touching story, and I’m sure she’d do a wonderful job.

[@Tommy-xy1eh]

WoW ! 👍🏻
Is it the whole book here ?
🙏🏻

[@user-bn9kr6nz5h]

@@Tommy-xy1eh Yes, but the little hardcover Grove Press edition I have is only 92 pages long. You can read it in one sitting, but you'll want to take your time to savour the writing.

[@JP_-_]

Chapter 2 15:33
Chapter 3 27:07
Chapter 4 35:23
Chapter 5 38:41
Chapter 6 1:05:36
Chapter 7 1:09:44
Chapter 8 1:14:47

[@Tommy-xy1eh]

Such a beautiful reading !
❤

[@7Zakaria]

big up man

[@AlbaCreativa]

thanks man

[@RehmanKhan4u]

24:17

[@RehmanKhan4u]

1:03:53