Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover.
One man,many lives.
Born in 1799,Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating,years of luck and unexpected loss.
Moving from County Cork to London,from Waterloo to Zanzibar,Cashel seeks his fortune across continents in war and in peace. He faces a terrible moral choice in a village in Sri Lanka as part of the East Indian Army. He enters the world of the Romantic Poets in Pisa.
In Ravenna he meets a woman who will live in his heart for the rest of his days. As he travels the world as a soldier,a farmer,a felon,a writer,a father,a lover,he experiences all the vicissitudes of life and,through the accelerating turbulence of the nineteenth century,he discovers who he truly is. This is the romance of life itself,and the beating heart of The Romantic.
From one of Britain's best-loved and bestselling writers comes an intimate yet panoramic novel set across the nineteenth century.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241994078Number of pages: 480Weight: 330 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 28 mm
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'The Romantic by William Boyd was the novel I enjoyed most this year. It's incredibly ambitious,its hero moving from Co Cork to London,then from Waterloo to Zanzibar,and at one point even joining the East Indian Army,but it was such an easy,indulgent read.'- Sathnam Sanghera,The Times,Best Books of the Year
William Boyd
Throughout a glittering career,William Boyd has covered everything from colonial farce to primate research in a series of beautifully-rendered novels. His 1991 debut A Good Man in Africa immediately bagged the Whitbread First Novel Award,a win that has heralded contemporary classics such as the Costa-winning Restless and the literary tour de force that is Any Human Heart.
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