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...

Adoptado por una pareja acomodada aunque excéntrica de Dublín que le recuerda que él no es un miembro real de su familia, Cyril se embarca en un viaje para encontrarse a sí mismo y de dónde vino, descubriendo su identidad, un hogar, un país, y mucho más a lo largo de una larga vida. Adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple who remind him that he is not a real member of their family, Cyril embarks on a journey to find himself and...