Possession
A Romance
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:2nd Aug '07
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Winner of the Booker Prize
The perfect gift for Valentine’s Day
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. 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.
The perfect gift for Valentine’s Day
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 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 *
ISBN: 9780099503927
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 37mm
Weight: 426g
624 pages