"An abandoned baby affects a whole fishing community and one family in particular in this beautifully intimate and eloquent novel."
Intimate as can be, yet far-reaching and profound, this beautifully written novel about family and community, loss and love has been chosen as a LoveReading Star Book. An abandoned baby captures the interest of an entire village in 1973, over the next two decades the ripples of his arrival continue to spread. Narrated from within a small Irish fishing locality yet focusing on one particular family lends this story a knowing and intense voice. These people, this story, reaches into the heart of what holds a community together with humour, compassion, pain, and fear all strumming through the pages. Author Garrett Carr writes an exquisite and lyrical pen, I felt planted and as though I had roots in this setting of traditions and fierce independence. The sense of atmosphere and place is immense and yet somehow familiar as it took me by the hand into the unknown. I loved the detail, the small items of note that build to make this story colourfully and authentically real. Yet the legitimacy of the feel and tone of the words also veer into an otherworldliness too. Original and powerful The Boy From the Sea picks you up into a wild and exuberant dance of emotion and experience. Highly recommended.
