The Lonely Sea and Sky
| By: | Dermot Bolger |
| Publisher: | New Island Books |
| Published: | May 2016 |
| Pages: | 384 |
| Categories: | Fiction |
| Language: | English |
| Available as: | Paperback |
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Part historical fiction, part extraordinary coming-of-age tale, The Lonely Sea and Sky charts the maiden voyage of fourteen-year-old Jack Roche aboard a tiny Wexford ship, the Kerlogue, on a treacherous wartime journey to Portugal. After his father’s ship is sunk on this same route, Jack must go to sea to support his family – swapping Wexford’s small streets for Lisbon’s vibrant boulevards: where every foreigner seems to be a refugee or a spy, and where he falls under the spell of Kate?ina, a Czech girl surviving on her wits.