'Shimmers with something close to genius. . . it is a modern masterpiece' Daily Mail
Rediscover the classic Booker Prize-winning novel of romance, history, intrigue, and high drama.
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.
'A novel for every taste. . . You turn the last age and feel stunned and elated, happy to have the chance to read it' Washington Post
'A triumphant success on every level' Cosmopolitan