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A review by duckoffimreading
Foster by Claire Keegan
4.0
Beautifully written, quick read of a summer foster care situation in Ireland. The Kinsella’s (family relatives?) take in a young girl for the summer while her mother is pregnant with her youngest brother and her dad is busy with work and going to the bar/gambling. There is so much said yet not said at the same time. My heart breaks for that little foster family - that young girl got the attention and nurturing that her parents, with their large brood, couldn’t provide.
Memorable quotes:
- You don’t ever have to say anything,’ he says. ‘Always remember that as a thing you need never do. Many’s the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.
- 'Ah, the women are nearly always right, all the same,' he says. 'Do you know what the women have a gift for?'
- 'What?'
- 'Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what's coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.
Memorable quotes:
- You don’t ever have to say anything,’ he says. ‘Always remember that as a thing you need never do. Many’s the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.
- 'Ah, the women are nearly always right, all the same,' he says. 'Do you know what the women have a gift for?'
- 'What?'
- 'Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what's coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.