Helen Humphreys. The REINVENTION of LOVE. HarperCollins, 2011.
A young writer and reviewer, Sainte-Beuve, has an affair with Victor Hugo's wife Adele. In 19th century Paris plus the aftermath, on Guernsey and in Halifax, NS.
This is the fifth Helen Humphreys novel I have read: Coventry, The Lost Garden, The Evening Chorus, Rabbit Foot Bill, and The Reinvention of Love.