Possession by Byatt, A. S.

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A tale of two young scholars researching the secret love affair of two Victorian poets that's an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. "Gorgeously written ... A tour de force." --The New York Times Book Review

Winner of England's Booker Prize and a literary sensation, Possession traces the lives of a pair of young academics as they uncover a clandestine relationship between two long-dead Victorian poets. As they unearth their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire--from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany--what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas.

Author: A. S. Byatt
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/01/1991
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.22w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780679735908
Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee
Award: Man Booker Prize - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/06/1991
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2008 pg. 102

About the Author
A. S. Byatt was the author of numerous novels, including The Children's Book, The Biographer's Tale, and Possession, which was awarded the Booker Prize. She also wrote two novellas, published together as Angels & Insects, five collections of short stories, and several works of nonfiction. A distinguished critic and author, and the recipient of the 2016 Erasmus Prize for her "inspiring contribution to 'life writing, '" she died in 2023.