Love is Blind - The Rapture of Brodie Moncur (Broché)

Set at the end of the nineteenth century, William Boyd's heart-stopping new novel follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life. When Brodie is offered a job managing a piano shop in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father. There, a fateful encounter with a famous pianist changes his future — and sparks an obsessive love affair with Lika Blum, a beautiful Russian soprano.
But as one century ebbs into another, a dark new chapter is about to unfold in Brodie's life, one which will see him pursued across Europe by his love for Lika, and by its ultimately fatal consequences.