The Boy from the SeaCompulsive reading. Compassionate, lyrical and full of devilment Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses 1973. In a close knit community on Ireland's west coast, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. Named Brendan Bonnar by Ambrose, the fisherman who adopts him, Brendan will become a source of fascination and hope for a town caught in the storm of a rapidly changing world. Ambrose, a man more comfortable at sea than on land, brings Brendan into his