The Virgin in the Garden

In Possession, A. S. Byatt produced a tour de force that brought together Victorian romanticism and modern sensibility, a novel that combined the elements of mystery, romance, and scholarship in an utterly captivating narrative. Those same ingredients are present in The Virgin in the Garden - a wonderful entertainment in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy, intersect richly and unpredictably. Set in Yorkshire in 1952 as the inhabitants of the area set about celebrating the accession of a new Queen, this is the tale of a brilliant and eccentric family fatefully divided.

Format: Softback - Great condition

Publisher: Vintage Books

Published: 1994

ISBN: 0099478013