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The heart's invisible furies, John Boyne

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The heart's invisible furies, John Boyne

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The heart's invisible furies

Responsibility statement

John Boyne

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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