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'A compelling experiment in biography-cum-memoir' -- Times Literary Supplement'Bostridge elegantly and poignantly interweaves tales of amorous grief and mental illness.' -- The SpectatorFrom Normandy to the Caribbean Islands, this innovative biographical pursuit follows Adele Hugo on her reckless journey of unrequited love - and the writer who chased after her more than 150 years later.It's 1863. The daughter of the most famous writer in the world, Victor Hugo, who has ambitions as a writer and composer, suddenly leaves her family's home on the Channel Islands bound for Nova Scotia. Adele Hugo is in pursuit of a young British soldier, with whom she is desperately in love, but who has rejected her. She stalks him around the world to no avail, until she returns to Paris and is admitted to the asylum where she will spend the rest of her life.Now Mark Bostridge sets out in pursuit of the truth about Adele, following in her footsteps around the world over a century later. In so doing he recognises the source of his fascination with the aspects of Adele's life that reflect and parallel his own.In Pursuit of Love is part memoir and part travelogue, as well as an invigorating new approach to the writing of biography.
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1 Tides
2 Paper Trails
3 Fathers and Daughters
4 Ghosts
5 Absences
6 Escapade
7 Fantasy
8 Exiled
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Mark Bostridge's books include Vera Brittain: A Life, shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Prize, the NCR Award for Non-Fiction and the Fawcett Prize, the bestselling Letters from a Lost Generation, Florence Nightingale. The Woman and Her Legend, awarded the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, and The Fateful Year, England 1914, shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. His biography of Adèle Hugo In Pursuit of Love, was published by Bloomsbury Continuum in 2024. He has written widely for national newspapers and journals, and appeared on television and radio.
