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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Motion movie fodder It is alarming that this book is many peoples' first introduction to William Boyd.It is nothing more than up market Mills & Boon written with a screenplay in mind starring Helen Mirren or Meryl Streep.To read what Boyd can really do then look no further than "Any Human Heart". The two books are worlds apart.
The only book I have read twice It is a year on from reading this book first time round.I could not put the book down and read it in a day.Which for me is a world record!! I was absolutely gripped with the suspense in this book.The parts of the book that were set in the 40's transported me back as if I was standing on an oppostie street corner watching events unfold. I loved this book.
Just good enough to keep you until the end This is the first William Boyd I have read, other people have told me that they like his writing a lot but I can't see that he is anything very special on this showing. There is quite a nice and subtle WW2 spy/love story at the heart of the book which is pretty convincing and does actually make you want to turn the pages. Unfortunately this is hitched to a 1976 sub plot which is a little bit about life as a single mum and a bit about being politically and culturally aware and the changes in European society... more info
Entertaining - but don't think about it too much I have not previously read any books by William Boyd and enjoyed "Restless", which combines the unfolding story of a spy in World War II with the less-than-thrilling life of her daughter some thirty years later. It would be fair to say that the most exciting thing to have happened to the younger woman is finding out about her mother's past, but the rather self-absorbed character herself might not agree. Some reviewers seem to dislike the sections containing the daughter, Ruth, but I felt that these passages... more info
