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.
As always, Byatt wields beautiful prose, and the mix of prose and poetry gives the book a sensuality as mysterious as anything in the plot Intelligent, ingenious and humane - Times Literary Supplement
A combination of intellectual fireworks and magnetic readability - Guardian
Author
About A.S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt is internationally acclaimed as a novelist, short
story writer and critic. Educated at York and Newnham College,
Cambridge, she taught at the Central School of Art and Design, and was
Senior lecturer in English at University College, London, before
becoming a full-time writer in 1983. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and
DBE in 1999. Her most recent novel is A Whistling Woman, the conclusion
of the famous 'Frederica' quartet.
