Episode Two

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?

Ambrose Bonnar, a local fisherman, is far more interested in who he will become 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 . . .

Set over twenty years, Garrett Carr’s 'The Boy from the Sea' 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.

The Author
Garrett Carr was born and brought up in the harbour town of Killybegs, County Donegal where his father was a fisherman. Garrett now teaches Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast. His non-fiction book ‘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.

Reader: Niall Cusack
Author: Garrett Carr
Abridger: Rowan Routh
Producer: Michael Shannon

A BBC Audio Northern Ireland Production for BBC Radio 4.