The Heart’s Invisible Furies – John Boyne

Catherine Goggin is 16 years old, pregnant, and lives in a small Irish village in 1945. In a vicious display of righteous (and as it turns out unjustified) indignation, the priest publicly humiliates her and banishes her from her home and family. But Catherine is made of stern stuff. She makes her way to Dublin where she finds somewhere to live and – passing herself off as a war widow – a job in the tea rooms of the Irish Parliament. In a well executed plan, she gives up her baby boy for adoptio...