Lonely Sea and Sky Bolger Dermot
Lonely Sea and Sky Bolger Dermot 'Myles Foley gripped my soaked jumper. Out here, we are all sailors. Before his ship sank he was a Nazi: now he's a drowning sailor. Are you going to disgrace their…
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Lonely Sea and Sky Bolger Dermot
'Myles Foley gripped my soaked jumper. Out here, we are all sailors. Before his ship sank he was a Nazi: now he's a drowning sailor.
Are you going to disgrace their memory?'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. Your father and grandfather understood that. 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 Katerina, a Czech girl surviving on her wits.
Bolger's new novel is based on a real-life rescue in 1943, when the Kerlogue's crew risked their lives to save 168 drowning German