Love is Blind: William Boyd

`Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent` Sunday Times
`A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination` Guardian Book of the Week
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.
`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
`Boyd`s talents as a rollicking storytelling [are] full on display in this historical blockbuster` Metro
***A SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR***