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In Pursuit of Love: The Search for Victor Hugo's Daughter

By (author) Mark Bostridge

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From Normandy to the Caribbean Islands, this innovative biographical pursuit follows AdÃ¨le Hugo on her reckless journey of unrequited love â€“ and the writer who chased after her more than 150 years later. Itâ€™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 familyâ€™s home on the Channel Islands bound for Nova Scotia. She is in pursuit of a young British soldier, with whom she is desperately in love, but who has rejected her. Eight years later, after stalking him to the Caribbean, where heâ€™s stationed with the army, AdÃ¨le Hugo is brought back to Paris by a benevolent former slave woman who has taken pity on her. She is admitted to an asylum where she dies decades later, rich from the inheritance of the rights to her fatherâ€™s books. This story of hopeless love has inspired writers, composers, and a well-known film by FranÃ§ois Truffaut. Yet much about AdÃ¨le Hugoâ€™s tragic life has remained shrouded in mystery â€“ not least the true character and identity of the soldier who ultimately contributed to her undoing. Mark Bostridge was drawn to AdÃ¨leâ€™s story in his twenties, thanks in part to the FranÃ§ois Truffaut film, and has been following her story ever since. Now he sets out in pursuit of the truth about her, travelling halfway across the world, acting as sleuth and tracking down the descendants of the soldier she loved. In so doing he recognises the source of his fascination with the aspects of AdÃ¨leâ€™s life that reflect and parallel his own. The result is a moving book about the pain of loving too much and of parents loving too little; about the ways in which we are haunted by the dead; and about our insatiable appetite for other peopleâ€™s stories which possess us and invade our own lives. 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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