Imprint: Black Swan
Published: 14/12/2017
ISBN: 9781784161002
Length: 736 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 127mm x 127mm
Weight: 492g
RRP: £8.99
'Compelling and satisfying... At times, incredibly funny, at others, heartrending' Sarah Winman, author of When God Was a Rabbit
Forced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin finds herself pregnant and alone, in search of a new life at just sixteen. She knows she has no choice but to believe that the nun she entrusts her child to will find him a better life.
Cyril Avery is not a real Avery, or so his parents are constantly reminding him. Adopted as a baby, he’s never quite felt at home with the family that treats him more as a curious pet than a son. But it is all he has ever known.
And so begins one man’s desperate search to find his place in the world. Unspooling and unseeing, Cyril is a misguided, heart-breaking, heartbroken fool. Buffeted by the harsh winds of circumstance towards the one thing that might save him from himself, but when opportunity knocks, will he have the courage, finally, take it?
Imprint: Black Swan
Published: 14/12/2017
ISBN: 9781784161002
Length: 736 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 127mm x 127mm
Weight: 492g
RRP: £8.99
Tender, dark, hilarious, heartbreaking—I loved it
the most beautifully written and crafted novel ... heartbreaking
By turns savvy, witty and achingly sad . . . This is a novelist at the top of his game.
I ran through the whole range of human emotions while reading this brilliant novel. It's a masterpiece.
Screamingly funny one minute and heartbreaking the next.
A special read
Boyne creates lightness out of doom, humour out of desperately sad situations, creating a compelling page-turner… a terrific read.
An epic novel…. Worthy of the great master of the Irish comic novel, Flann O’Brien. The Heart’s Invisible Furies proves that John is not just one of Ireland’s best living novelists but also one of the best novelists of Ireland.
Written with verve, humour and heart…at its core, The Heart’s Invisible Furies aspires to be not just the tale of Cyril Avery, a man buffeted by coincidence and circumstance, but the story of Ireland itself