This novel takes place in what is now Tanzania, and I know this because at several points I was Wikipediaing a lot of the details. For example, William Boyd was born in Gold Coast. And I had no idea that was what is now Ghana. So anyway, Tanzania was for a bit of time the bordering colonies of German East Africa and British East Africa, but those were more historically Zanzibar and Tanganyika. So here we are. So this novel is about a group of […]
To many left behind, on this circle round the sun…
(Note any gifs here come from the mini-series I’m not in the habit of inserting random gifs of Mathew Macfadyen into my reviews though I can by request….) How do we measure a life lived? By the sum of all the money we have made? By the people we love and who have loved us back? By the places we have been or events we have witnessed? By all of these things or none of them at all? Any Human Heart is the story of a full […]