Boy from the Sea (eBook)

the heart-wrenching story of an ordinary town and an extraordinary boy

Garrett Carr (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
Pan Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-0350-4454-2 (ISBN)

Infos

As read on BBC Radio 4A Sunday Times Best Book of the YearAn 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 ThingsThe 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' *****

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.2.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-0350-4454-4 / 1035044544
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0350-4454-2 / 9781035044542