



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, an Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that’s what his adoptive parents tell him. Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that’s what his adoptive parents tell him.
