num_pages: 555
description: 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 seances 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, Euan MacIntyre, Maud Bailey, James Blackadder, Val, Beatrice Nest, Mortimer Cropper, Blanche Glover, Leonora Stern, Sabine de Kerkoz, Randolph Henry Ash, Roland Michell, Ellen Ash
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Poetry, Mystery, Romance
ratings_count: 78950
places: London, England, Lincoln, England, 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: Random House