Scottish musician Brodie Moncur relates the story of his life, fleeing a tyrannical clergyman father in Edinburgh for a new life in Paris, during which an encounter with a pianist brings Brodie towards an obsessive and dangerous Love affair with Russian soprano Lika.
Boyd is the author of the Somerset Maugham Prize-winning A Good Man In Africa, Any Human Heart and many other critically-acclaimed works of fiction..
Scottish musician Brodie Moncur relates the story of his life, fleeing a tyrannical clergyman father in Edinburgh for a new life in Paris, during which an encounter with a pianist brings Brodie towards an obsessive and dangerous Love affair with Russian soprano Lika