
The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr (Picador, 2025)
Fiction
The Boy From the Sea by Garrett Carr (ISBN: 9781035044535) is also a story of a baby, abandoned on the beach of a small, hardy fishing community on the west coast of Ireland, in 1973. Adopted by Ambrose Bonnar, the fisherman who finds him, Brendan’s arrival stokes rivalries and fractures in a family facing a changing world.