As read on BBC Radio 4
A Sunday Times<\/i> Best Book of 2025
An Observer <\/i>Best Debut of 2025<\/b><\/p>\n
‘Compassionate, lyrical and full of devilment’ – Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses<\/i>
‘A joy . . . vivid, loving and genuinely funny’ The Sunday Times<\/i>
‘I didn’t want it to ever end’ Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n
Ambrose, a local fisherman, is far more interested in who he will become <\/i>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 . . .<\/p>\n
Set over twenty years, Garrett Carr’s The Boy from the Sea<\/i> 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.<\/p>\n
Readers love The Boy from the Sea<\/i>:<\/p>\n
‘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<\/i> 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’ *****<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Incredibly moving and warm, The Boy from the Sea<\/i> is a love story: of a family, a town, and a boy whose arrival changes everything. For fans of Kate Atkinson, Claire Keegan and Jon McGregor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[216],"product_tag":[26844,26960,69,26830,26901,26837,27011,26828],"class_list":["post-106973","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-fiction-hardback","product_tag-family-life-fiction","product_tag-generational-sagas","product_tag-historical-fiction","product_tag-modern-contemporary-fiction","product_tag-narrative-theme-coming-of-age","product_tag-narrative-theme-environmental-issues","product_tag-narrative-theme-politics","product_tag-narrative-theme-sense-of-place","pa_book_author-carr-garrett","pa_cover-hardback","pa_dewey-823-92-edition23","pa_edition-hardback-original","pa_imprint-picador","pa_language-english","pa_pages-8500","pa_publisher-picador","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n