The Hearts Invisible Furies - John Boyne
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Stephen Hogan
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Contemporary, Adults
From the beloved New York Times best-selling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one mans life, beginning and ending in postwar Ireland. Cyril Avery is not a real Avery - or, at least, thats what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isnt 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 glamorous 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 many years - will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country, and much more. In this, Boynes most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to tod
