Description

A beautiful hardback edition of the Booker Prize-winning novel. A romance, a literary quest, a modern classic.

A pair of young scholars investigate 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. Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story.

‘Exhilarating genius’ Guardian

‘Possession is eloquent about the intense pleasures of reading. And, with sumptuous artistry, it provides a feast of them’ Sunday Times

**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE**

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful

Publisher Review

[AS Byatt’s] exhilarating genius came into its own with Possession — Guardian * Harriet Harvey Wood, * A literary blockbuster — Lisa Allardice * Guardian * Possession perfectly demonstrated that she was more than capable of humour and of spinning the sort of yarn that would keep her readers feverishly turning the pages * The Times * An entire and enchanted universe — Elif Shafak A novel in which Byatt’s heady talent triumphantly comes into its own — Peter Kemp * The Times *