The Boy from the Sea [electronic resource] : the most heart-warming debut of 2025
Carr, Garrett2025
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An Observer Best Debut of 2025 An ordinary town. An extraordinary boy. The heart-warming, life-affirming debut story of a baby found on a beach and the fisherman who adopts him. 'Compassionate, lyrical and full of devilment' - Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses 'A joy . . . vivid, loving and genuinely funny' The Sunday Times 1973. In a close-knit community on Ireland's west coast, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. Named Brendan by Ambrose Bonnar, the fisherman who adopts him, the boy 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 is a decision that will fracture his family and force this man – more comfortable at sea than on land – to try to understand himself and those he cares for. Set over twenty years, Garrett Carr's The Boy From the Sea is a novel about a restless boy trying to find his place in the world. It is an exploration of the ties that make us and bind us, as a family and community move irresistibly into the future. Readers love this gorgeous debut: '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' ***** 'Left me feeling warm and satisfied when I finished it and I've thought about it daily since then' *****
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Carr, Garrett, Author
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[Place of publication not identified] : Pan Macmillan, 2025
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
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Garrett Carr teaches Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen's University Belfast, and he is a frequent contributor to The Guardian and The Irish Times. His non-fiction The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland's Border was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. The Boy from the Sea is his debut novel.
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9781035044542
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English
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7716725
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