Possession: A Romance - Brossura

'It is a great, shaggy, generous, polysyllabic, triple-decker beast of a book and I haven't read anything in an age I've enjoyed so much. Nor have I sat into the small hours turning the pages of a manuscript in execrable computer print, with such risk to my eyes, already weakened, weakened still further by the Swiss lights because I simply had to get to the end of it. It is the mixture of ideas, cunning, fairy tales, humour - the clever way she interweaves natural history, romance, poems, porches, table tapping and even, I think, rapunzel; and it is also so funny, in two centuries, at once! I believe it's the best thing she has done. Christabel and Ash, Roland and Maud come of the page bewitchingly.' Christopher Hope 'A massive, complex story about a literary mystery which turns into an emotional voyage of discovery-The novel is a triumphant success on every level - as a critique of Victorian poetry, an unbearably moving love story and a satire on the modern "Biography Industry"' Cosmopolitan

A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize in 1990), and the Frederica Quartet; The Children's Book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999 and is the recipient of the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’.