The Romantic by William Boyd

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Book name:	The Romantic (2024)
Category:	Historical Fiction
Author:	William Boyd
Pages:	451 pages
ISBN13:	0241542030
ISBN:	0241542030
Language:	English
Publication data:	Oct. 1, 2022, 7 a.m.

Set in the 19th century, The Romantic is the story of life itself. Following the roller-coaster fortunes of a man as he tries to negotiate the random stages, adventures and vicissitudes of his existence, from being a soldier to a pawnbroker, from being a jailbird to a gigolo to a diplomat - this is an intimate yet sweeping epic.

About the author

William Boyd

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Of Scottish descent, Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana on 7th March, 1952 and spent much of his early life there and in Nigeria where his mother was a teacher and his father, a doctor. Boyd was in Nigeria during the Biafran War, the brutal secessionist conflict which ran from 1967 to 1970 and it had a profound effect on him.

At the age of nine years he attended Gordonstoun school, in Moray, Scotland and then Nice University (Diploma of French Studies) and Glasgow University (MA Ho… Read more