The Sunday Timesīoyne creates lightness out of doom, humour out of desperately sad situations, creating a compelling page-turner… a terrific read. His new novel shows he can write movingly for adults as well… the cast is enormous yet at no point do we lose interest in Cyril. John Boyne is best known for his children’s novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. This is a novelist at the top of his game. Daily Expressīy turns savvy, witty and achingly sad. Screamingly funny one minute and heartbreaking the next. 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. Worthy of the great master of the Irish comic novel, Flann O’Brien. Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of LoveĪn epic novel….
I ran through the whole range of human emotions while reading this brilliant novel. 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? Read more Unspooling and unseeing, Cyril is a misguided, heart-breaking, heartbroken fool. But it is all he has ever known.Īnd so begins one man's desperate search to find his place in the world. 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. She knows she has no choice but to believe that the nun she entrusts her child to will find him a better life.Ĭyril Avery is not a real Avery, or so his parents are constantly reminding him. At times, incredibly funny, at others, heartrending' Sarah Winman, author of When God Was a Rabbitįorced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin finds herself pregnant and alone, in search of a new life at just sixteen. Truly the best of John Boyne - hilarious, touching and deeply sad The Heart's Invisible Furies is the breakout book Boyne was born to write.
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