An elating read Sunday TimesA producer A novelist An actressIt is summer in 1968 the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy There are riots in Paris and the Vietnam War is out of control While the world is reeling our three characters are involved in making a Swingin Sixties movie in sunny Brighton All are leading secret lives Elfrida is drowning her writers block in vodka Talbot coping with the daily dysfunction of making a film is hiding something in a secret apartment and the glamorous Anny is wondering why the CIA is suddenly so interested in herBut the show must go on and as it does the trios private worlds begin to take over their public ones Pressures build inexorably someones going to crack Or maybe they all willFrom one of Britains 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 isntPRAISE FOR WILLIAM BOYDThe ultimate in immersive fiction magnificent Sunday TimesA finely judged performance a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction of literary myth and imagination Guardian on Love is BlindWilliam Boyd has probably written more classic books than any of his contemporaries Daily TelegraphSimply the best realistic storyteller of his generation Sebastian Faulks
