A producer. A novelist. An actress.
It is summer in 1968,the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling our trio is involved in making a rackety Swingin'Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives.
As the film is shot,with its usual drastic ups and downs,so does our trio's private,secret world begin to take over their public one. Pressures build inexorably - someone's going to crack. Or maybe they all will.
From one of Britain's bestselling and best loved writers comes an exhilarating,tender novel that asks the vital questions: what makes life worth living And what do you do if you find it isn't
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241295977Number of pages: 352Weight: 236 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm
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'Boyd is backon a form few of his contemporaries can match.'-Observer on Love is Blind
'He has probably written more classic books than any of his contemporaries.'-Sunday Times
'A work ofastonishing ventriloquistic virtuosity.'-Sunday Telegraph on Any Human Heart
'One of Britain's finest living writers.'-Sunday Express
'Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction,andLove is Blindis Boyd at the top of his game...magnificent.'-Daily Telegraph
'Simply the best realistic storyteller of his generation.'-Sebastian Faulks
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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