Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
'A triumphant success on every level.' – Cosmopolitan
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time.
'Teeming with more ideas than a year's worth of ordinary novels.' – Spectator
'This is a novel for every taste: a heartbreaking Victorian love story, a take-no-prisoners comedy of contemporary academic life, and an unputdownable supernatural mystery. You turn the last page feeling stunned and elated, happy to have had the chance to read it.' – Washington Post
'Possession is eloquent about the intense pleasures of reading. And, with sumptuous artistry, it provides a feast of them.' – Sunday Times
'Our best novelist.' – Evening Standard
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A. S. Byatt
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, DBE (commonly known as A. S. Byatt, born 1936) is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner. In 2008, The Times newspaper named her among their list of The 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
Photo: Byatt in June 2007 in Lyon, France. Photo author: Seamus Kearney. Photo source: Wikimedia Commons.
