A review by carolinebl
Any Human Heart by William Boyd

Did not finish book. Stopped at 57%.

After following a character for so many years, one should have some sort of attachment.

I enjoyed the Duke of Windsor plotline much more than the caricatures of famous writers.

But, really, I shouldn’t have bought this book. I was lured in by the title and the breadth (I love a century-spanning novel!) but it feels cheap to just throw in every famous name from that year and somehow interact with them all. I like a morally-grey character as much as the next person, but the overwhelming male selfishness and the lack of a fleshed out female character (of course all the women just take off their bikini tops) was painful. And the only interesting part of the writing was the amendments to the diary… overhyped in my opinion.