**BOOKER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A tale of two young
scholars researching the secret love affair of two Victorian poets
that's an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual
mystery, and a triumphant love story. "Gorgeously written ... A tour de
force." --The New York Times Book Review
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Winner of England's Booker Prize and a literary sensation, Possession
traces the lives of a pair of young academics as they uncover a
clandestine relationship between two long-dead Victorian poets. As they
unearth their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements
from London to Yorkshire--from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted
far west of Brittany--what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of
passions and ideas.