National Bestseller Winner of Englands Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters journals and poems and track their movements from London to Yorkshirefrom spiritualist sances to the fairyhaunted far west of Brittanywhat emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas. An exhilarating novel of wit and romance an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite and then on to national bestellerdom. show more