John Boyne / The Heart's Invisible Furies / Review

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? 

Mairéad Hearne

[ About the Book ]

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.

Water is the first of a quartet of interlinked novels named after the elements by John Boyne

Water is the first of a quartet of interlinked novels named after the elements by John Boyne

Mairéad Hearne

[ About Water]

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past.

John Boyne / The Echo Chamber / ‘To err is human, but to foul things up you only need a phone.’

‘To err is human, but to foul things up you only need a phone.’

– The Echo Chamber

Mairéad Hearne

[ About the Book ]

What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds – and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept.