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Garrett Carr

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THE BOY FROM THE SEA
"A novel of heart-bumping power and sparkling vividness, this book evokes the seethe and surge of an island nation's sea fables while being suspicious of sentiment, often wittily so. A story about a very specific place that somehow comes to seem an everywhere and a people who feel familiar as faces in mirrors. A breathtaking achievement." Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the Sea and My Father's House. 

“Compulsive reading . . . Compassionate, lyrical and full of devilment.” Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses

"The Boy from the Sea is a single-generation family saga as dazzlingly compact as it is comprehensively insightful, a love story in which the tenderness and forbearance are all the more moving for the eloquence wit
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Average rating: 3.86 · 3,841 ratings · 610 reviews · 7 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Boy from the Sea

3.84 avg rating — 3,577 ratings — published 2025 — 19 editions
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The Rule of the Land: Walki...

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The Badness of Ballydog (Vo...

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Lost Dogs

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Deep Deep Down

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“Old, is it?" the man asks.
"Yes, very."
"Pre-war, is it?"
"Yes," I say. "If by war you mean the Norman invasion.”
Garrett Carr, The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland's Border

“It was an engineer named Robert Stevenson who began building these curved towers. He was the founder of a lighthouse-building dynasty although one grandson turned away from engineering and became a writer instead.”
Garrett Carr, The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland's Border

“Eunan was against anything without set purpose and complete predictability and a human tended to fail on these requirements… He mocked anything frivolous: placemats, dessert, having a lie-in, suffering from your nerves. 'Get away out of that!' he'd shout at cream cakes and people with hay fever. To him harsh words weren't a bad thing, they were just a little sandpaper, giving a person a hard-wearing exterior. 'I was often spoken to harshly and it's done me no harm, he'd say and no one dared disagree.”
Garrett Carr, The Boy from the Sea

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“Old, is it?" the man asks.
"Yes, very."
"Pre-war, is it?"
"Yes," I say. "If by war you mean the Norman invasion.”
Garrett Carr, The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland's Border

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