Possession: A S Byatt

As a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets uncover their letters journals & poems & trace their movements from London to Yorkshire-and from spiritualist seances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany-an extraordinary counterpoint of passions & ideas emerges. An exhilarating novel of wit and romance an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite and then on to national bestellerdom. Winner of England’s Booker Prize a coast-to-coast bestseller and the literary sensation of the year Possession is a novel of wit and romance at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. Revolving around a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets Byatt creates a haunting counterpoint of passion and ideas.