Love is Blind
Book Feature - Love is Blind by William Boyd
Book Feature - Love is Blind by William Boyd
HBL Note: This is the first post I’ve written since I moved into a new home. I wish I could say I’m writing this from the beautiful sunroom, which we made into my office. But in a cruel twist of fate, just two days after we moved into our home, the condo below ours had an oven fire that spread throughout the building destroying most of our home and damaging everything we own. This quote from the book synopsis below took on more meaning for me than it had before the fire, “Love is Blind is a tale of…all the possibilities that life can offer, and how cruelly they can be snatched away.”
Book Feature - Love is Blind by William Boyd
From the publisher:
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 nineteenth century becomes the twentieth.
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.
Book Feature - Love is Blind by William Boyd
