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The Boy from the Sea

the heart-wrenching story of a family and a town reshaped by the arrival of an abandoned baby

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The Boy from the Sea

Auteur(s): Garrett Carr
Narrateur(s): Stanley Townsend
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As read on BBC Radio 4
A Sunday Times Best Book of the Year
An Observer Best Debut of the Year

'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

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.

Perfect for fans of Kate Atkinson and Claire Keegan.

In 1973 on the west coast of Ireland, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. Who is he? Where is he from?

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, 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' *****

 Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Historique Littérature et fiction Littérature mondiale Récits initiatiques Drôle

Ce que les critiques en disent

<b>Compulsive reading . . . Compassionate, lyrical and full of devilment</b> (Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses)
<b>Warm, funny, full of lightly worn wisdom and wit.</b> In short,<b> it is a joy</b> . . . the power of Carr&rsquo;s novel lies in the contrast between its warm hilarity and the cold truths those jokes contain . . . <b>vivid, loving and genuinely funny</b>
<b>A beautifully written, tragi-comic triumph</b>
<b>A novel of heart-bumping power and sparkling vividness</b>. This is <b>a strange, beautiful, truly compelling triumph</b>, a story about a very specific place that somehow comes to seem an everywhere and a people who feel familiar as faces in mirrors. <b>A breathtaking achievement</b> (Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the Sea and My Father's House)
A tremendous story about a family changed by the arrival of a strange boy, which <b>feels like an instant classic<i> </i>. . . huge hearted, masterful<i> </i></b><i>. . . </i>Told in a <b>captivating communal voice like nothing I&#39;ve ever read before</b> . . . <i>The Boy from the Sea </i>is a <b>dazzling</b> exploration of the ties that make and bind us (Lauren Brown, The Bookseller, Book of the Month)
A <b>ruefully funny portrait </b>of a dysfunctional family in a struggling town,<i> The Boy from the Sea</i> rings painfully true. I was <b>gripped</b> (Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room)
Beautifully written - gorgeous modern folklore (Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater)
Stunning
Outstanding . . . one of those beautiful books that soothe the soul
<i>The Boy from the Sea</i> is an <b>utterly engrossing</b> read. <b>Atmospheric and incredibly moving, I was captivated</b> by the trials and triumphs of the Bonnars. <b>A bittersweet ballad of a novel</b> I&#39;ll be thinking about for a very long time (Jan Carson, author of The Raptures)
<i>The Boy from the Sea</i> by Garrett Carr <b>captures the changing feelings and textures of the latter decades of the twentieth century in Ireland more precisely than any other recent novel I could name</b>. Its language and sensibility reflects the <b>sly humou</b>r of its Donegal setting, and the reader is riveted by the heroic efforts of its characters to hold on to one another in the face of <b>gale-force winds of historical change</b> (Niamh Mulvey, author of The Amendments)
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