Graham Robb's many books include Victor Hugo: A Biography, which won the 1997 Whitbread Biography Award.
John Phipps is a journalist.
Has anyone on here read Victor Hugo's epic novel about life on the channel islands, โToilers of the Seaโ, whose existence I first learned about today?
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I'm reading The Toilers of the Sea for the first time and in true Victor Hugo fashion, the story doesn't start until page 60 because he spends the pages up to that describing the landscape and society of Guernsey, where the book takes place