Keynote

Reissued with a beautiful new illustrative cover, this Booker Prize-winning novel of romance, literary history, intrigue and high drama is a modern classic

Description

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.

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE

Reviews

• 'A triumphant success on every level' - Cosmopolitan
• '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
• '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' - Elizabeth Kostova
• 'Intelligent, ingenious and humane' - Times Literary Supplement