The Heart's Invisible Furies: A Novel [Paperback]

Named Book of the Month Club's Book of the Year, 2017
Selected one ofNew York TimesReaders’ Favorite Books of 2017
Winner of the 2018 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 

From the belovedNew York Timesbestselling author ofThe Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in post-war Ireland

Cyril Avery is not arealAvery -- 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?

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. 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, 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 Furiesis a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit.Praise forThe Heart's Invisible Furies:

Finalist for the 2018 LAMBDA Literary Awards
Finalist for the 2018 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction

“By turns whimsical and heartbreaking, Boyne’s sprawling novel treads Dickensian territory across seven decades of Irish history, ending with a redemption for both a country and a native son.” 
– People

Bleak, bittersweet, and Irish to the bone... explore[s] the relationship between Catholicism and patriarchy in midcenturylc.