The Boy from the Sea

A Sunday Times Best Book of 2025An 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 ThingsIn 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. 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' *****