Lies of Silence
Brian Moore
Summary:Michael Dillon moves to England and unwillingly is caught up in the politics of Northern Ireland when the IRA plants a bomb in his car and orders him to park the car outside the hotel that he manages.-WorldCat
Read Time: ~8.8 hr
Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt (1890)
About this book
Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, *Possession* is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover 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. An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraClassic Era
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters
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