'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