The Boy from the Sea

A tremendous story about a family changed by the arrival of a strange boy, which feels like an instant classic . . . huge hearted, masterful . . . Told in a captivating communal voice like nothing I''ve ever read before . . . The Boy from the Sea is a dazzling exploration of the ties that make and bind us, as a family and community more inexorably towards the future. I''ll be pressing a copy of this book into the hands of everyone I know.>

Product details

• Authors: Garrett Carr, Carr Garrett
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 05.02.2026
• EAN: 9781035044573
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3504457-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, Sagas, FICTION / Sagas, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Donegal, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Family Life / Siblings, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Adoption & fostering, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1970 to c 1979, Adoption and fostering, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, FICTION / World Literature / Ireland / General, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II