Any Human Heart writing again of a whole-life view: "I don't think there's anything wrong with going back over territory you've previously covered." Though avowedly not an (auto-)biographical novelist, Boyd acknowledged that personal experiences often subconsciously affect a writer's fiction. As in several of Boyd's novels there are parallels with the author's life: both Boyd and Mountstuart lived in Africa and France, studied at Oxford, worked in literary London and had a taste of New York. Boyd usually splits the creation of a novel into two phases: research and writing. The first phase of "Any Human Heart" took 30 months as he carefully
I Belong to You/How Many Ways I Belong to You/How Many Ways "I Belong to You"/"How Many Ways", alternatively "How Many Ways"/"I Belong to You" in the vinyl edition, is the fifth and final single from American R&B singer Toni Braxton's self-titled debut album, "Toni Braxton" (1993). The single was released in the United States in 1994 with both songs as double-sided songs. "I Belong to You" was written by Vassal Benford and Ronald Spearman and produced by Benford. While there was no music video for "I Belong to You", the song garnered Braxton a nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance at the 1996 Grammy