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Any Human Heart

by

William Boyd

Logan Mountstuart, 1906 - 1991, A life well lived. Logan Mountstuart, author, spy, husband, father, student, son, lover, adulterer, rich man, poor man, human.

Any human heart is told to us through Mountstuart's journals. This is the story of a life, lived to excess, but also the banal of the ordinary everyday that makes up all our lives.  Mountstuart's story is a journey through the twentieth century.

I adored this book, reading it virtually non stop over a three day period. While I cannot say I liked Logan Mountstuart, sometimes I positively disliked him, at the end of the book (the end of his life) I mourned his loss.

William Boyd, writes as if Mountstuart was a real person, who lived this story, and this rings completely true. It was fascinating how Boyd weaved real people into Mountstuarts's journals.

Brilliant storytelling

Elaine