I enjoyed this book but I hadn’t realised until I started it that I had already seen the TV mini-series adaptation that had been on Channel 4 recently. Luckily the book and the TV show were faithful to each other and it had been enough time since I saw it that it didn’t spoil my enjoyment of the story. It is well written in a journal style that engages and pulls you along in the wake of the main characters varied and interesting life.
‘Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, and Logan Mountstuart’s — lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century — is a rich tapestry of both. As a writer who finds inspiration in Paris and London, as a spy betrayed in the war and as an art-dealer in ’60s New York, Logan mixes with the men and women who shape his times. But as a son, friend, lover and husband, he makes the same mistakes we all do in our search for happiness. Here, then, is the story of a life lived to the full — and a journey deep into a very human heart.’
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