Love Is Blind

✍ Scribed by Boyd, William

• Book ID: 110455437
• Publisher: Knopf
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 716 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780525655275

✦ Synopsis

The Whitbread Award-winning author of A Good Man in Africa and the Costa Award-winning Restless
now gives us a sweeping new novel that unfolds across fin-de-siècle
Europe as it tells a story of ineffable passions--familial, artistic,
romantic--and their power to shape, and destroy, a life.

Brodie
Moncur is a brilliant piano tuner, as brilliant in his own way as John
Kilbarron--"The Irish Liszt"--the pianist Brodie accompanies on all of
his tours from Paris to Saint Petersburg, as essential to Kilbarron as
the pianist's own hands. It is a luxurious life, and a level of success
Brodie could hardly have dreamed of growing up in a remote Scottish
village, in a household ruled by a tyrannical father. But Brodie would
gladly give it all up for the love of the Russian soprano Lika Blum:
beautiful, worldly, seductive--and consort to Kilbarron. And though
seemingly doomed from the start, Brodie's passion for her only grows as
their lives become increasingly more intertwined, more secretive, and,
finally, more dangerous--what Brodie doesn't know about Lika, and about
her connection to Kilbarron and his sinister brother, Malachi,
eventually testing not only his love for her but his ability, and will,
to survive.