Sunday, August 10, 2025

THE REINVENTION OF LOVE

 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. 

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