BOOKER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A tale of two young scholars researching the secret love affair of two Victorian poets that s an exhilarating novel of wit and romance an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. Gorgeously written ... A tour de force. --The New York Times Book Review Winner of England s Booker Prize and a literary sensation Possession traces the lives of a pair of young academics as they uncover a clandestine relationship between two long-dead Victorian poets. As they unearth 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.