The Boy From the Sea by Garrett Carr
By Garrett Carr 2025-07-29 11:26:07
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'Compulsive reading. Compassionate, lyrical and full of devilment' Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses 1973. In a close-knit community on Ireland’s west coast, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. Named Brendan Bonnar by Amb... Read more

'Compulsive reading. Compassionate, lyrical and full of devilment' Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses

1973. In a close-knit community on Ireland’s west coast, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. Named Brendan Bonnar by Ambrose, the fisherman who adopts him, Brendan will become a source of fascination and hope for a town caught in the storm of a rapidly changing world.

Ambrose, a man more comfortable at sea than on land, brings Brendan into his home out of love. But it’s a decision that will fracture his family and force him to try to understand himself and those he cares for.

Bookended by the arrival and departure of a single mesmerizing boy, Garrett Carr's The Boy From the Sea is an exploration of the ties that make us and bind us, as a family and community move irresistibly towards the future.

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  • 336
  • Knopf
  • May 13, 2025
  • English
  • 9780593802885
Garrett Carr is from Killybegs, a fishing town in Donegal, Ireland's northwest coast. He now lives in Belfast and teaches Creative Writing in the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens University Belfast....
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