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E9 | The Radio Maria Book Club – “The Lonely Sea & Sky” by Dermot Boyle

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Radio Maria Ireland
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Jun 30, 2026
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Summary

Caroline Busher welcomes reviewers Caroline Mullen and Elizabeth Hickey to discuss Dermot Boyle’s gripping WWII novel The Lonely Sea and Sky. This historical fiction novel follows Jack, a fourteen-year-old boy from County Wexford who must forge his age to join a British merchant vessel after his father’s death leaves his family without their breadwinner. The […]