Boyd spends his summers in the south of France and has a large readership in France. Several French newspapers favourably reviewed "Any Human Heart", published in France in 2002 as "A livre ouvert: Les carnets intimes de Logan Mountstuart."L'express" called Boyd a "magician", while "Le Nouvel Observateur" called it "very good Boyd. Perhaps even his "magnum opus"." In France the book won the 2003 Prix Jean Monnet de Littérature Européenne which rewards European authors for work written or translated into French.