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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.



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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 *

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    A Paperback / softback by A S Byatt

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: 02/08/2007
      ISBN13: 9780099503927, 978-0099503927
      ISBN10: 0099503921

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Trade Review
      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 *

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