Publisher's Synopsis
TV adaptation of William Boyd's best-selling novel tracing the life of fictional writer Logan Gonzago Mountstuart. Jim Broadbent, Matthew Macfadyen and Sam Claflin play the writer as he travels through the different stages of his long, eventful life, spanning every decade of the 20th century. From his student days in Paris, to his betrayal as a spy in the war and his time as a New York art dealer, the story follows Logan's take on historical events of the time, as well as charting the many relationships, both personal and professional, that come to change his life.