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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.
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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"Tender, dark, hilarious, heartbreaking―I loved it" (Vogue)
"It’s been a long time since I read anything so compelling and satisfying. At times, incredibly funny, at others, heartrending" (Sarah Winman, author of Tin Man)
"By turns savvy, witty and achingly sad . . . This is a novelist at the top of his game." (The Mail on Sunday)
"I ran through the whole range of human emotions while reading this brilliant novel. It's a masterpiece." (Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love)
"Screamingly funny one minute and heartbreaking the next." (Daily Express)
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"It’s been a long time since I read anything so compelling and satisfying. At times, incredibly funny, at others, heartrending" (Sarah Winman, author of Tin Man)
"By turns savvy, witty and achingly sad . . . This is a novelist at the top of his game." (The Mail on Sunday)
"I ran through the whole range of human emotions while reading this brilliant novel. It's a masterpiece." (Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love)
"Screamingly funny one minute and heartbreaking the next." (Daily Express)
Truly the best of John Boyne - hilarious, touching and deeply sad The Heart's Invisible Furies is the breakout book Boyne was born to write.
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 0857523473
- ISBN 13 9780857523471
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages608
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