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|title=The Reinvention of Love

|sort= Reinvention of Love

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=320

|publisher=Serpent's Tail

|isbn=978-1846687983

|website=http://www.hhumphreys.com/

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'The Reinvention of Love' is one of those stories that is so bizarre and strange that it could only be based on factual events. Essentially it is a good, old-fashioned love triangle set mostly in Paris in the period from the 1830s to the 1860s; a world where fighting duels is a commonplace event. The triangle features the great French literary writer Victor Hugo, his wife Adèle and the altogether strange critic Charles Saint-Beuve who narrates much of this story, with brief breaks for Adèle's side of events and some letters written by the Hugo's youngest daughter, also called Adèle (but let's call her, as she was known to her family, Dédé to avoid confusion).

If the strange love lives of great writers is what you are into, then look no further than [[A Man of Parts by David Lodge]] which looks at the love lives of HG Wells which will have a similar effect of making your eyebrows and jaw head in opposite directions.

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[[Category:Literary Fiction]]