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

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Podcast: [Radio Maria Ireland](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radio-maria-ireland-5533426)
Published: 2026-06-30T10:09:22+00:00
Episode link: https://www.radiomaria.ie/e9-rmbc/
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## Resource

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 […]

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