01387cam a2200289 i 4500 1262014640 TxAuBib 170719s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2017026971 9781524760786 1524760781 TxAuBib rda Boyne, John, 1971-, author. The heart's invisible furies / John Boyne. First US edition. London : Hogarth, [2017] ©2017. 580 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. Adoptees Fiction. Conduct of life Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Ireland Social conditions Fiction.