When he is hired as the personal piano tuner for a brilliant pianist, Brodie Moncur suddenly finds himself swept up into a life of luxury that he could never have imagined. But while accompanying his new employer on tours from Paris to St. Petersburg, Brodie falls madly in love with the Russian soprano Lika Blum: beautiful, worldly, seductive—and forbidden. Though seemingly doomed from the start, Brodie’s passion for Lika only grows as their lives become increasingly more intertwined, more secretive, and, finally, more dangerous. A tale of dizzying passion and brutal revenge; of artistic endeavor and the illusions it can create; of the possibilities that life offers and the cruel speed with which they can be snatched away, Love Is Blind is a dazzling work of historical fiction that unfolds across fin de siècle Europe.
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“You won’t want to miss Roy McMillan’s performance of William Boyd’s engrossing novel of obsession, passion, betrayal, and piano tuning…McMillan’s diction perfectly reproduces the ambiance of the nineteenth century with its flourishes and excesses…McMillan delivers the continually twisting plot and its revelations with elegance…Intriguing listening.”
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