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It’s the saddest story ever told - and told so beautifully that you wish it would never end. The author’s search for the truth about Victor Hugo’s daughter carries him across oceans and into the darkest corners of his own past. It’s an unforgettable journey. * Ferdinand Mount, author of Big Caesars and Little Caesars * A haunting and utterly engrossing book – not just a brilliant study of Adele Hugo’s obsessive and unrequited love, but full of revelations about the biographer himself, as he pursues the truth about her life, and finds in the process many parallel truths about his own. * Claire Harman, author of Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart *

It’s the saddest story ever told - and told so beautifully that you wish it would never end. The author’s search for the truth about Victor Hugo’s daughter carries him across oceans and into the darkest corners of his own past. It’s an unforgettable journey. * Ferdinand Mount, author of Big Caesars and Little Caesars *

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Mark Bostridge won the Gladstone Memorial Prize at Oxford University. He worked for the politician Shirley Williams and at the BBC before becoming a full-time writer. His books include the highly acclaimed biographies, Vera Brittain: A Life, shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Prize, the NCR non-fiction Award, and the Fawcett Prize; and Florence Nightingale: The Woman and her Legend, winner of the 2009 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. He has written widely for national newspapers and journals, and appeared on television and radio. He was the consultant on a film version of Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth, which was produced by Heyday for BBC Films and was released in January 2015.

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