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Waiting for Sunrise, Review of Novel by William Boyd

My husband said it was the best William Boyd he had read. My son agreed- he had given it to my husband as a Christmas present. Thus advised, I looked forward to reading it. I was interested in the way it began. It’s always so hard to know how to begin and end a novel, but to start it as though you are watching someone from afar is a good ploy and one I have never seen used before. All the William Boyd books I have read take a lot of “getting in to”, and this one is no exception. The first half is set in post-first-world-war...

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Times change and we change with them

My son is thirty nine today. I remember the day he was born as clearly as if it was yesterday. And yet it seems to me I was such a different person then. This led me to think about whether we are indeed different people at different stages of our lives. Certainly that’s what the author William Boyd thinks, and writes about in his novel “Any Human Heart”, recently brilliantly dramatized on television.

It’s not just the fact that I was thirty nine years younger when my son was born that makes me believe I was so different....

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