'Compulsive reading' Louise Kennedy author of Trespasses In 1973 a baby is found on the beach
of a close-knit town on Ireland's west coast. The baby fascinates the community and the boy he
grows to be will fascinate them too - no one can quite get to the bottom of Brendan Bonnar.
That's the name given to the baby by Ambrose the fisherman who adopts him. Ambrose is a man of
great bulk and great heart and he brings Brendan into his home. It's a decision born of love
but one that will fracture his family and force this man - emotionally illiterate more
comfortable at sea than on land - to try to understand himself and those he loves. Told in the
communal voice of a small fishing town The Boy From the Sea is a story of a family and a
community bookended by the arrival and departure of this mesmerizing boy. Over the years it
charts the rises and falls in the Bonnars' and the town's fortunes as the global economy and
the EU fisheries flex their muscles. The world is turning and this corner of Donegal is
shifting begrudgingly along with it. Outrageously funny and incredibly moving The Boy from
the Sea is fo
