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The Heart's Invisible Furies

<b>'Compelling and satisfying... At times, incredibly funny, at others, heartrending' Sarah Winman, author of <i>When God Was a Rabbit</i></b><br /><br />Cyril Avery is not a <i>real</i> 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? <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br /><b>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. <i>The Heart's Invisible Furies</i> is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit.</b><br /><b>_____</b><br /><br />Readers love the <b>next </b>book by John Boyne, <i><b>A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom</b></i>, out 23 July 2020<br /><br />***** ‘Very unique, very well written and crafted … a journey you will never forget.’<br />***** ‘It’s structure is like nothing I have seen before … the rewards on reading it are immense.’<br />***** ‘An extraordinary book…beautifully and intelligently written, timeless and insightful.’ <br />***** ‘This is an imaginative tour de force.’<br />***** ‘Ambitious and breathtakingly evocative … takes your breath away.’<br />***** ‘A masterpiece... I can’t praise this book enough; had me gripped from the first page. Sublime!’