Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that's what his adoptive parents tell him & 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 & 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 & dangerous Julian Woodbead At the mercy of fortune & coincidence he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself & where he came from
- & over his three score years & ten will struggle to discover an identity a home a country & 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 & cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit