Possession Audiobook

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• “Gorgeously written…dazzling…a tour de force.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “A genuine winner…original and unforgettable.”

  — Time

• “[A] wonderfully two-tiered mystery of letters, the most craftily constructed conjuction of Victorian and modern styles since The French Lieutenant’s Woman…[Byatt’s] elaborate creations of poetry, correspondence, and journals in Victorian style are vivid…You will be transfixed.”

  — People

• “An exhilarating, virtuosic exploration of the many ways language has of speaking…[Byatt] ingeniously juxtaposes the previous century with the hothouse world of the contemporary academy [and] puts all her linguistic and parodic skills on display…[a] tour de force.”

  — New Republic

• “An altogether convincing literary romance…as lushly sensuous in detail as a pre-Raphaelite painting yet wonderfully entertaining.”

  — Vogue

• “[A] gigantic treasure hunt of a literary novel.”

  — Village Voice Literary Supplement

• “A triumphant success on every level.”

  — Cosmopolitan

• “Brilliant…Virginia Leishman brings the dusty scholarly world to life in the voices of its singular characters and the myriad styles of its literary manuscripts.”

  — AudioFile