Love is Blind

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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 twentieth century, Love is Blind is a masterly new novel from one of Britain s best loved storytellers. Best Read Love is Blind by William Boyd For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Brodie Moncur is a piano tuner in Edinburgh which sounds like a pretty low key profession, but in the hands of William Boyd certainly is not It s the last decade of the 19th century when Brodie has the opportunity to move to his employer s new Paris showroom and help establish the brand on the Continent Brodie is an artist, not only musically, but also as a tuner He knows how to shave and balance the hammers so that a piano has just the touch the pianist needs This gift is what brings John K Brodie Moncur is a piano tuner in Edinburgh which sounds like a pretty low key profession, but in the hands of William Boyd certainly is not It s the last decade of the 19th century when Brodie has the opportunity to move to his employer s new Paris showroom and help establish the brand on the Continent Brodie is an artist, not only music...

Love is Blind
  • 18 May 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 0241295939
  • William Boyd
  • Love is Blind