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The girl who knew a summer of love
https://looneybooks79.blog/2024/09/30/foster/
A father drops his child off at some relatives, the Kinsellas. The girl is suddenly thrown into a bath of warmth and love, such as she has never truly known at home (with all the siblings and a new one arriving real soon at home). She doesn’t know what to feel at first but grows to love the love given. But she also feels that within this family something is hidden, a secret between the two adults.
This short story is from the writer who also wrote 'Small Things like these' (I'll post the link to my review for that novella under this review).
This story is seen from the perspective of a young girl that somehow is not welcome at her own home, a reason is never truly given so we as readers can only guess or speculate. We invade her mind and hear and her own thoughts and views upon what is happening around her, with her and to her while she stays at the farm of the Kinsellas. The two childless farmers are so happy to have her around and how she behaves that neither the Kinsellas or the young girl want the summer ever to end.
Somehow this story, which was even a little bit shorter than 'Small Things like these', told a wholesome and loving story of these three people in a small rural Irish town. Even though the young girl feels something is going on between the two Kinsellas, she also feels a love she has never known before and wants to bask in it. And this time it works as a short story, nothing much else needs to be said about it. The things left unsaid in the story are not pivotal for us readers to be left unsatisfied.
The only thing I thought was that the girl, for the age she is portrayed (it's never mentioned how old she is but as she still sits on the lap of Mr. Kinsella at a certain point, you know she's still a very young one) she has quite adult thoughts, something I don't really see happening in real life, not the way Keegan writes them. But apart from that this little short story is a little gem and a fast read, perfect for a rainy autumn Sunday afternoon, with a cup of coffee or tea while sitting back in a comfy chair!
A father drops his child off at some relatives, the Kinsellas. The girl is suddenly thrown into a bath of warmth and love, such as she has never truly known at home (with all the siblings and a new one arriving real soon at home). She doesn’t know what to feel at first but grows to love the love given. But she also feels that within this family something is hidden, a secret between the two adults.
This short story is from the writer who also wrote 'Small Things like these' (I'll post the link to my review for that novella under this review).
This story is seen from the perspective of a young girl that somehow is not welcome at her own home, a reason is never truly given so we as readers can only guess or speculate. We invade her mind and hear and her own thoughts and views upon what is happening around her, with her and to her while she stays at the farm of the Kinsellas. The two childless farmers are so happy to have her around and how she behaves that neither the Kinsellas or the young girl want the summer ever to end.
Somehow this story, which was even a little bit shorter than 'Small Things like these', told a wholesome and loving story of these three people in a small rural Irish town. Even though the young girl feels something is going on between the two Kinsellas, she also feels a love she has never known before and wants to bask in it. And this time it works as a short story, nothing much else needs to be said about it. The things left unsaid in the story are not pivotal for us readers to be left unsatisfied.
The only thing I thought was that the girl, for the age she is portrayed (it's never mentioned how old she is but as she still sits on the lap of Mr. Kinsella at a certain point, you know she's still a very young one) she has quite adult thoughts, something I don't really see happening in real life, not the way Keegan writes them. But apart from that this little short story is a little gem and a fast read, perfect for a rainy autumn Sunday afternoon, with a cup of coffee or tea while sitting back in a comfy chair!
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