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The Boy from the Sea

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The Boy from the Sea

Written by: Garrett Carr
Narrated by: Stanley Townsend
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As read on BBC Radio 4
A
Sunday Times Best Book of 2025
An
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 Things

In 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.

©2025 Garrett Carr (P)2025 Macmillan Publishers International Limited
Coming of Age Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Sagas Small Town & Rural World Literature
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