Trowbridge Book Group - The Hearts Invisible Furies: John Boyne

Cyril Avery is not a real Avery, 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 three score years and 10, 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 Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit.

2025 reading list:
Wrong Place Wrong Time: How do you stop a murder when it’s already happened? by Gillian McAllister
Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover
None Left to Tell by Noelle West Ihli
Look Closer by David Ellis
The Honeymoon by Shalini Boland
Kill for me, Kill for you by Steven Cavanagh
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
An Immoral Code by Caro Fraser
A Little Life: Hanya Yanagihara
Take Six: Six Portuguese Women Writers by Margaret Jull Costa
Eragon: Book One (The Inheritance cycle 1) by Christopher Paolini

Our previous books (Score out of 10):
Kill for me, Kill for you by Steven Cavanagh TBC
Piranesi by Susanna Clark 7.5
Krugg Syndrome by Angus McAllister 7.5
The Rose Code: Kate Quinn 9.5
The Making of Another Major Motion.. Tom Hanks 7
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell 8.5
XMAS Book, Murder Your Darlings by Mark McCrum 7.5
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 8.5
I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell 6
Isaac Asimov's Caliban by Roger Macbride Allen 8
Wicked Game by Matt Johnson 7
I'm Going to Find You by J D Pullan 7.5
I am Watching You by Teresa Driscoll 7.5
Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple 6
All that Lives by James Oswald 4.5
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 8.5
Ghosted by Mark McCrum 7.5
Foundation and Earth by Asimov 7
Red Light and Bell: Your Sins Will Find You Out by Richard Cobourne 7.5
Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes 8
Bandwagon by Richard Cobourne 6.5
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 3.5
The Seven Sisters: Book 1 - Lucinda Riley 7.5
Night Train To Lisbon by Pascal Mercier --
The Murder Bag by Tony Parsons --
When You Look Like Us by Pamela N. Harris 7.5
The Dinner Guest by B P Walter 8
The Radleys Paperback by Matt Haig 7.75
The Keeper of Stories by Sally Page 7/10
Equinox by Micheal White 7.5/10
Restless by William Boyd 7/10
The The Crimson Petal And The White by Michel Faber 4
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee 9
Tell No One by Harlan Coben 8
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare 7
The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe - Eric Stanley Gardner 8/10
Dune by Frank Herbert 7.5/10
The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurty 8/10
The L Shaped Room by Lynn Reid Banks 7/10
The Guest List by Lucy Foley 7/10
Dark Crimes by M Hambling 8/10
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 9/10
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
One More Croissant for the Road by Felicity Cloake 8.5
The Space Machine by Christopher Priest 7.5
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 8
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 9.5
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood by Frank McCourt 6.5
The Einstein Enigma - Jose Rodrigues Dos Santos 6.5
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 8
Jamaica Inn - Daphne du Maurier 8
1st To Die (Women’s Murder Club 1) - James Patterson 6.5
When all is said – Anne Griffin 9
Sacred hearts, Sarah Durant 8.5
The Island - Victoria Hislop 9
Jonathan Livington Seagull – Richard Bach 9
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood - Score 7
Here to Stay, Mark Edwards - Score 5
A Death in Tuscany, Michele Giuttari - Score 8.33
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Just For The Record: The Autobiography of Status Quo - Score 5
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Saint's of the Shadow Bible by Ian Rankin
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Foundation by Isaac Azimov
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The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
The Secret Place by Tana French
Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
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I Am Missing by Tim Weaver
About Grace by Anthony Doerr
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
This Must be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell
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Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
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