William Boyd: The Romantic review - historical soap opera, anyone?
The author's cradle-to-grave formula wears a little thin. Review by Hugh Barnes
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The author's cradle-to-grave formula wears a little thin. Review by Hugh Barnes
READING a William Boyd book is like devouring a Willard Price adventure for adults. Willard who? Bear with me: this is high praise. Price…
Boyd tracks the adventures of a 19th-century traveller in a hugely satisfying cradle-to-grave narrative
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