The heart's invisible furies

John Boyne

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.

Author(s): Boyne, John
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 14/12/2017
Pagination: 700 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Black Swan
Published By: Black Swan
Book Classification: Family life fiction|Modern & contemporary fiction|Narrative theme: Coming of age|Narrative theme: Coming of age
Dimensions: 196x127x30
Weight: 495
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781784161002