by William Boyd, Simon Vance
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Lovely sweeping novel - the story of a life - touching, interesting, great audiobook performance by Simon Vance.
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2010/03/review-any-human-heart-by-william-boyd.html
I have liked this book a great deal more than I wanted to admit. It flows easily, and the diary format, with short entries and some gossipy ingredients, makes it hard to break away. This was addictive reading.Several readers in GR have criticized that they do not like the main character. To me he...
I enjoyed this tremendously, even though I watched the TV adaptation a few weeks earlier, so I already knew the characters and plot (though there are some differences).STRUCTURED AS MEMOIRSThis is presented as a compilation of journals kept by Logan Mountstuart from shortly before he left school in ...
Written in diary form, this novel describes the life and times of Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, born in 1906 in Montevideo to an English father and his Uruguayan wife, who later moves with his family to England just before the First World War, and takes the reader from the 1920s to the 1990s. This is a...
I'll write a proper review later maybe, but my initial thoughts - * This book started out as 'just okay' for me - hovering between three stars and four stars, then became a hazy four stars but very near the end marched up to five stars. * I loved Logan. I came to know him and see him subtly cha...
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