PossessionA Romance

'A triumphant success on every level.' – Cosmopolitan

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.

'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