num_pages: 555
description: Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a 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 Yorkshire - from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany - what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas.
language: English
title: Possession
titlecomplete: Possession
characters: Christabel LaMotte, Randolph Henry Ash, Leonora Stern, Beatrice Nest, Blanche Glover, Maud Bailey, Mortimer Cropper, Val, Ellen Ash, Euan MacIntyre, Roland Michell, James Blackadder, Sabine de Kerkoz
genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Poetry, Literature, Classics, Mystery, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 78948
places: Lincoln, England, England, London, England, United Kingdom
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Irish Times International Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in South Asia and Europe
publisher: Vintage