Possession by AS Byatt is a story of two modern academics, Roland and Maud, both of whom are researching fictional Victorian Poets, Randolph Ash and Christabel La Motte respectively. The discovery of a scrap of a letter from Ash to La Motte leads to a fateful meeting between the two scholars which sends them on a suspenseful whirlwind search for the true relationship between the poets. This book is a mystery, a romance, a thriller and also contains a set of extremely beautiful poems seemingly written by very different poets but in actuality all written by the same author. I was incredibly impressed by the scope of the writing and was completely drawn into the addictive plot.