Russia 1915: a sixteen-year old boy saves a member of the Imperial family from an assassin's bullet and becomes bodyguard to the Tzar's heir; now in his eighties, living in exile, he is recounting his story. The fate of the Romanovs and especially of Anastasia, the Tzar's youngest daughter, haunted the 20th C - never mind we now know their fate - Boyne, the master story-teller, unfolds, apart from a few caveats, a gripping saga of what-might-have-been.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 104 Spring 2022 ) |
