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Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a captivating 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. A. S. Byatt is internationally known as a novelist, short-story writer and critic. She has published nine novels, two novellas and four collections of stories, and co-edited Memory: An Anthology. A. S. Byatt was appointed CBE after Possession was awarded the Booker Prize in 1990, and DBE in 1999. Her most recent novel was The Children's Book.