As read on BBC Radio 4 A Sunday Times Best Book of the Year An Observer Best Debut of the Year
The Boy from the Sea is Garrett Carr's brilliantly moving tale of an abandoned baby who rocks a
small Irish town bringing together a community - and igniting lifelong rivalries.
'Compassionate lyrical and full of devilment' - Louise Kennedy author of Trespasses 'A joy .
. . Vivid loving and genuinely funny' The Sunday Times 'I didn't want it to ever end' Jennie
Godfrey author of The List of Suspicious Things In 1973 on the west coast of Ireland a baby
is found abandoned on the beach. Who is he? Where is he from? What changes will he bring?
Ambrose a local fisherman is far more interested in who he will become and - with a curious
community looking on - takes the baby home and adopts him. But for Declan the baby's new
brother this arrival is surely bad news. Rivalries can be decades in the making . . . Set
over twenty years Garrett Carr's The Boy from the Sea is about a restless boy trying to find
his place in a town caught in the storm of a rapidly changing world. Readers love The Boy
from the Sea : 'Left me feeling warm and satisfied when I finished it and I've thought about
it daily since then' ***** 'Books are meant to change you to shape you and to heal you and
The Boy from the Sea does all those things' ***** 'You feel like you're right there in the
village' ***** 'Stunning. I found myself waking up at 5am because I was desperate to read more'
***** 'Felt like I was stepping off life's treadmill and immersing myself in another world'
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