Cyril Avery is not a real
Avery or at least that’s what his adoptive parents tell him. And he
never will be. But if he isn’t a real Avery, then who is he?
Born
out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish
community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the
intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the
world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the
infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead.
At the
mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to
know himself and where he came from – and over his three score years and
ten, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country and much
more.
In this, Boyne's most transcendent work to date, we are
shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of
one ordinary man. The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit.
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