Named Book of the Month Clubs Book of the Year 2017 Selected one of New York Times Readers Favorite Books of 2017 Winner of the 2018 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award From the beloved New York Times bestselling 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 welltodo 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 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 today through the eyes of one ordinary man. The Hearts Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit. show more