REVIEW OF MY WORK: The Boy from the Sea, Minnesota Star Tribune (USA)

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Malcolm Forbes For the Minnesota Star Tribune

“Carr’s beautiful and beguiling debut offers many delights. The characters live and breathe on the page. Masterful depictions of hardscrabble existences on land and perilous escapades at sea are offset with moments of wry humor”

 

“The book’s use of first-person plural narration (“We weren’t the sorts to judge people”) could have had a distancing effect. Instead, this communal voice proves effective as it draws us in to share the townsfolk’s hopes and concerns — not to mention their fascination with Brendan. He casts a spell over a small community; he is at the center of a novel that will bewitch many readers.”