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11/13/2019 11:01 PMIn this incredibly moving novel, the reader follows Cyril Avery from before birth to old age. Cyril’s mother, a young pregnant girl in a small Irish town, is shamed by the local priest and flees to Dublin where Cyril is born. Unable to care for the child, she offers him for adoption. Cyril is adopted by an eccentric couple who have very little interest in him. As he grows up in Dublin he realizes he is gay. This terrifies him because at that time being homosexual in Ireland was illegal. How Cyril navigates his life and comes to terms with his world is a story you will not forget.
Ginger, Breakwater Books, Guilford