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Love Is Blind
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Love is Blind by William Boyd.
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 20th century, Love is Blind is a masterly new novel from one of Britain's best loved storytellers.
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- David
- 30-10-2021
What a great story!
Spell binding! A wonderful love story. Impossible to stop listening. Highly recommended. Beware of tubercle and Russian women - they will finish you off for sure!
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- Tee tee
- 11-05-2023
Such an amazing Romp of a story
Wow I’m blown away by this .. the Authors knowledge of Europe and the historical backing is superb.. I particularly loved the accuracy of the piano tuner - everything about this book is well worth a listen. Thank you 🙏
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- Spencer
- 04-02-2019
Not the author’s best book
The main character seems wise and full of promise in the early chapters, but slowly as a reader I became to increasingly dislike his characterisation. Not easy for me to understand why he couldn’t see beyond the blind love that rules and ruins a life otherwise full of potential happiness and achievement. A good read other than the disappointment of the main character.
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- Albis1978
- 15-11-2018
A beautiful story
A delightful evocative tale of life in the late 1800’s. The characters are beautifully executed and the atmosphere of the era finely represented.
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