A gorgeous little novella! Read in a couple hours, but don't rush through it; the writing is wonderful!
Some snippets from the NYTimes review describe this perfect little book:
"The narrator is a young girl in rural Ireland who is sent by her parents to live with the Kinsella family while her mother, Mary, carries to term another child in a household already bustling with siblings. The Kinsellas, John and Edna, have no children of their own and will foster the girl on their small farm in Wexford, toward the southeastern coast of Ireland.
Keegan’s novella is a master class in child narration. The voice resists the default precociousness and walks the perfect balance between naïveté and acute emotional intelligence.
There is a sadness hovering over the Kinsella home, where “there is no sign, anywhere, of a child.” The girl senses a particular absence in the boy’s clothes she’s given to wear after a bath, and in the wallpaper of trains that covers her bedroom."
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