
Love Is Blind
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Narrated by:
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Roy McMillan
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By:
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William Boyd
About this listen
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Love is Blind by William Boyd.
Love is Blind is William Boyd's sweeping, heart-stopping new novel - set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life.
When Brodie 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 20th century, Love is Blind is a masterly new novel from one of Britain's best loved storytellers.
Boyd on Top Form
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Typical Boyd
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Love William Boyd novels
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Story in the title
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This is not my usual taste in books but it was written by William Boyd, and that makes it something I would explore. I was not disappointed.
The story is a beautiful period piece that describes time and places in a beautiful way and develops a plot and characters you naturally care for; Brodie Moncur became real and his travels and period became alive, and his fictitious life was real for a few spackling hours.
A definite yes, if you like good writing and something delicate.
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Love is Blind is enthralling and William Boyd constructs his story beautifully, as ever. This isn’t as perfect a novel as Any Human Heart (which is one of my favourite novels of the last 50 years), and I’m still not sure how much I warmed to the protagonist (despite Roy McMillan’s best efforts to inject him with an endearing voice), but ignore this book at your peril.
Excellent
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classic William Boyd
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beautifully crafted story
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Beautiful
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Excellent - would highly recommend.
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