Possession

The novel concerns the relationship between two fictional Victorian poets, Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte, as revealed to present day academics Roland Michell and Maud Bailey. Following a trail of clues from various letters and journals, they attempt to uncover the truth about Ash and LaMotte's past before it is discovered by rival colleagues.

The book is an exhilarating tale of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It brims with romance and tragedy as the torrid affair between the poets is slowly uncovered by the academics, who in turn start to develop feelings for each other, mirroring the affair they're concerned in a way that allows it to play out as it could not historically.

This Booker-winning novel is bound to set pulses racing and increase yearning and longing as its historical love affair affects the modern-day action.