Embrace

A little girl is sent to live with adoptive parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return to her home. In the house of strangers, she finds warmth and affection she had never known before, and under their care, her personality gradually begins to flourish. Then a secret is revealed! Suddenly, she realizes how fragile her life is. "Embrace," a beautiful, sad, and strange novella. "Embrace" won the Deffy Bruns Memorial Award, and established the name of Claire Keegan as one of Ireland's most important writers.