The Boy from the Sea

As read on BBC Radio 4A Sunday Times Best Book of 2025An Observer Best Debut of 2025\'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 ThingsIn 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 the world, and a town caught in the storm of a rapidly approaching future.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\' ***** Σελίδες: 336, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0513, Διαστάσεις: 14.5x14.5cm