Jasmina couldn't make it to the group meeting, but emailed her book review in - now that's dedication! Here's her review:
This book was a real pleasure to read; William Boyd's style is clear without being simple. His characters are well formed and Logan Mountstuart, the writer of the diaries we are reading in Any Human Heart, feels like a real character. Throughout his very eventful life he meets real people as well as the fictitious and Boyd plays with his readers: is Nat Tate, the subject of Boyd's book An American Artist, and footnote referenced on page 337 in Any Human Heart, fact or fiction? He's fictional, but we are cleverly manipulated by the author to wonder. There are plenty of other factual and fictional references too, throughout the book, to place Logan in his time and give the reader more knowledge about him and other characters.
Logan's life is fascinating. The reader is given, as Jeremy Paxman on the cover of the Penguin paperback version writes: "A terrific journey through the twentieth century". I agree with Paxman's final comment too, the book is: "Thoroughly entertaining and enjoyable".
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