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'Compulsive reading. Compassionate, lyrical and full of devilment' - Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses'A novel of heart-bumping power and sparkling vividness . . . a breathtaking achievement' - Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the Sea'I was gripped' - Emma Donoghue1973. In a close-knit fishing 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 baby captivates the town and the boy he grows to be will captivate them still – no one can quite fathom Brendan Bonnar.For Christine, Ambrose’s wife, Brendan brings both love and worry. For their existing son, his new brother’s arrival is the start of a life-long rivalry. And though Ambrose brings Brendan into his home out of love, 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.Told over two decades, Garrett Carr's The Boy from the Sea is a novel about a restless boy trying to find his place in the world and a family fighting to hold itself together. It is a story of ordinary lives made extraordinary, a drama about a community who can’t help but look to the boy from the sea for answers as they face the storm of a rapidly changing world.
CONTRIBUTORS: Boy from the Sea EAN: 9781035044535 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: 336 WEIGHT: HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan DATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Family Life / Siblings, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Small Town & Rural WIDTH: 135 cm SPINE:

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Donegal, c 1970 to c 1979, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Family life fiction, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Historical fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Adoption and fostering
'Compulsive reading. Compassionate, lyrical and full of devilment' - Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses'A novel of heart-bumping power and sparkling vividness . . . a breathtaking achievement' - Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the Sea'I was gripped' - Emma Donoghue1973. In a close-knit fishing 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 baby captivates the town and the boy he grows to be will captivate them still – no one can quite fathom Brendan Bonnar.For Christine, Ambrose’s wife, Brendan brings both love and worry. For their existing son, his new brother’s arrival is the start of a life-long rivalry. And though Ambrose brings Brendan into his home out of love, 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.Told over two decades, Garrett Carr's The Boy from the Sea is a novel about a restless boy trying to find his place in the world and a family fighting to hold itself together. It is a story of ordinary lives made extraordinary, a drama about a community who can’t help but look to the boy from the sea for answers as they face the storm of a rapidly changing world.
CONTRIBUTORS: Boy from the Sea EAN: 9781035044535 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: 336 WEIGHT: HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan DATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Family Life / Siblings, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Small Town & Rural WIDTH: 135 cm SPINE:

Book Themes:

Donegal, c 1970 to c 1979, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Family life fiction, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Historical fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Adoption and fostering

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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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