Book description
ANY HUMAN HEART is an ambitious, all-encompassing novel. Through the
intimate journals of Logan Mounstuart we travel from Uruguay to Oxford,
on to Paris, the Bahamas, New York and West Africa, and meet his three
wives, his family, his friends and colleagues, his rivals, enemies and
lovers, including notables such as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor,
Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf.
William Boyd was born in Ghana. He was brought up there and in
Nigeria. He was educated at the universities of Nice, Glasgow and
Oxford. He is the author of seven previous novels and the recipient of
many awards including the Whitbread First Novel, the John Llewellyn
Rhys Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Sunday Express
Book of the Year Award. AN ICE-CREAM WAR was shortlisted for the
Booker Prize.
He is married and lives in Chelsea, London.
