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In Pursuit of Love
A Journey in the Footsteps of Obsession
Brief Description
Profound, shattering and utterly immersive — Frances Wilson Blurring the edges of biography and autobiography, Bostridge displays a profound empathy for Adele, even at her most baffling and elusive — Literary Review In this unforgettably shattering memoir, In Pursuit of Love, Mark Bostridge finds himself haunted...
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A wildly inventive and enthralling memoir about obsession, truth and madness.
A wildly inventive and enthralling memoir about obsession, truth and madness.
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Profound, shattering and utterly immersive — Frances Wilson
Blurring the edges of biography and autobiography, Bostridge displays a profound empathy for Adele, even at her most baffling and elusive — Literary Review
In this unforgettably shattering memoir, In Pursuit of Love, Mark Bostridge finds himself haunted by the daughter of Victor Hugo. More than a century after her mysterious disappearance, he pursues Adele on her doomed and reckless journey of unrequited love.
But as he follows Adele's footsteps around the world, from Normandy to the Caribbean, he is forced to confront all the ways in which her fate parallels his own.
A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR
FIVE STARS DAILY TELEGRAPH
A compelling experiment in biography-cum-memoir — TLS
An unforgettable journey — Ferdinand Mount
Mark Bostridge's innovative biography... of haunting beauty and stylistic grace — Daily Telegraph
Utterly immersive — The Oldie
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781399416030
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 February 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Continuum
Illustration: 12 black and white images
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 240g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Mark Bostridge’s books include Vera Brittain: A Life, shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award, the NCR Non-Fiction Prize, and the Fawcett Prize; the bestselling Letters from a Lost Generation; Florence Nightingale, The Woman and Her Legend, winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography; and The Fateful Year, England 1914, shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. He has written widely for national newspapers and journals, and appeared on television and radio.
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