![]() ![]() ![]() Boyne dips into Cyril Avery’s life in seven year intervals, from his birth after World War II, through the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, and all the way into the legalization of marriage equality in this century. The Heart’s Invisible Furies is a Dickensian epic, a coming of age story set in 20th century Ireland. ![]() Going to work, running an errand and even going to sleep all interrupted my experience of this book, and I often wished I had saved it for a time when I wouldn’t have to take a break from reading quite so often. It took me over a week to finish this (at 600 pages, probably no surprise), but it was a struggle each and every time to put it aside for real life. In fact, I recommend you save it for a lazy weekend or your next staycation. This is one of my favourite books this year, and I cannot recommend it enough. What an incredible, beautiful, captivating book this is! It’s the kind of book that begs to be read slowly, to have its words savoured as we dip in and out of Cyril Avery’s life and allow ourselves to be lost in John Boyne’s Ireland. ![]()
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