Book review: Foster by Claire Keegan

Samantha Fiander

Book review: Foster by Claire Keegan

Samantha Fiander

Centre For Excellence For Children'S Care And Protection

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

1 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

On one of the bank and public holidays afforded to us in Scotland in May I read the short story Foster by Claire Keegan. Not having read the acclaimed Small Things Like These, I was new to the work of this Irish writer and confess that I was simply in search of something to read on a spring afternoon sat outside having taken some much-needed time to myself.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	133-134
Number of pages	2
Journal	Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care
Volume	23
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 14 Nov 2024

Keywords

foster care
foster carers
fostering of children

Access to Document

Fiander-SJRCC-2024-Book-review-Foster-by-Claire-KeeganFinal published version, 65.3 KBLicence: CC BY-NC 4.0

Cite this

@article{0cd7511bcd604004b367da7dbfaee8fb,

title = "Book review: Foster by Claire Keegan",

abstract = "On one of the bank and public holidays afforded to us in Scotland in May I read the short story Foster by Claire Keegan. Not having read the acclaimed Small Things Like These, I was new to the work of this Irish writer and confess that I was simply in search of something to read on a spring afternoon sat outside having taken some much-needed time to myself.",

keywords = "foster care, foster carers, fostering of children",

author = "Samantha Fiander",

year = "2024",

month = nov,

day = "14",

language = "English",

volume = "23",

pages = "133--134",

journal = "Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care",

issn = "1478-1840",

number = "2",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Book review

T2 - Foster by Claire Keegan

AU - Fiander, Samantha

PY - 2024/11/14

Y1 - 2024/11/14

N2 - On one of the bank and public holidays afforded to us in Scotland in May I read the short story Foster by Claire Keegan. Not having read the acclaimed Small Things Like These, I was new to the work of this Irish writer and confess that I was simply in search of something to read on a spring afternoon sat outside having taken some much-needed time to myself.

AB - On one of the bank and public holidays afforded to us in Scotland in May I read the short story Foster by Claire Keegan. Not having read the acclaimed Small Things Like These, I was new to the work of this Irish writer and confess that I was simply in search of something to read on a spring afternoon sat outside having taken some much-needed time to myself.

KW - foster care

KW - foster carers

KW - fostering of children

UR - https://www.celcis.org/knowledge-bank/sircc-journal

M3 - Article

SN - 1478-1840

VL - 23

SP - 133

EP - 134

JO - Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care

JF - Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care

IS - 2

ER -

Book review: Foster by Claire Keegan

Abstract

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care: Vol 23 No.2

Cite this