The author of Any Human Heart returns with a story of dangerous risk, obsessive passion and fatal ambition. A spry turn-of-the-century epic that manages to be both expansive and intimate.
When Brodie Moncur is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father, and begin a wildly different new chapter in his life.
In Paris, a fateful encounter with a famous pianist irrevocably changes his future - and sparks an obsessive love affair with a beautiful Russian soprano, Lika Blum.
Moving from Paris to St Petersburg to Edinburgh and back again, Brodie's love for Lika and its dangerous consequences pursue him around Europe and beyond, during an era of overwhelming change as the 19th century becomes the 20th.
Love is Blind is a tale of dizzying passion and brutal revenge; of artistic endeavour and the illusions it creates; of all the possibilities that life can offer, and how cruelly they can be snatched away.
At once an intimate portrait of one man's life and an expansive exploration of the beginning of the twentieth century, Love is Blind is a masterly new novel from one of Britain's best loved storytellers.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241295922
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 269 g
Dimensions: 200 x 132 x 24 mm
Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent - Sunday Times
Boyd is back on a form few of his contemporaries can match. This fine, touching and clever book is the best thing he's written since [Any Human Heart] and deserves similar adulation - Observer
The book begins and continues at a cracking pace - or perhaps a cinematic stride - with scenes, scenarios, set-pieces and minor characters aplenty, all of which and all of whom might easily detain another writer for an entire book . . . He makes it look easy: he's a pro - New Statesman
Boyd's talents as a rollicking storytelling [are] full on display in this historical blockbuster - Metro
A deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination - Guardian
He has probably written more classic books than any of his contemporaries - Daily Telegraph
Boyd is a brilliant novelist - Observer
William Boyd is arguably one of Britain's finest living writers - Sunday Express
I must say that William Boyd is one of my favourite authors with his writing never disappointing me. ‘ Love is Blind ‘ is a spellbinding story of Brodie Moncur and his life as a piano tuner taking him through out... More
William Boyd’s new novel is a captivating tale of love, travel and music; it is also a literary game, with Boyd sprinkling references throughout the novel which readers may or may not recognise. It is part classic... More
Love is Blind by William Boyd is a truly memorable story with wonderful characterization. His colourful writing instantly transports the reader to Scotland at the end of the nineteenth century and continues the... More
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