The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd, 1993
Charming and engaging touch of historical drama spooled together with medical miracles, murder, midair machines and Manila. Starts off with an architect in 1936 being encountered by an unfamiliar man claiming to be her father, and then we get his story, which is more or less the whole story in terms of content. Great historical air with gruesome bodily detail and irrational romance. I tend to naturally envision everything I read cinematically, and this turned out a great reel, could be a tight movie I think.
The payoff, though, didn't consist of many dollars, but the journey there was moving and lushly multifaceted.
4/5