In a rural Lincolnshire village called Croysant le Wold, some conveniently heroic behaviour on Roland's part scores them an invitation to Seal Court, the manor house where Christabel LaMotte spent the last 20+ years of her life. Maud soon finds herself just as captivated as Roland, and she asks if he'd like to visit the place where Christabel LaMotte once lived. On the advice of a charmingly wolfish colleague, Roland travels to Lincoln to meet Maud Bailey, one of the world's leading LaMotte scholars. Roland's sleuthing soon turns up a likely candidate-another nineteenth-century poet, named Christabel LaMotte. Who could she have been? Seized with burning curiosity and an unexpected flare-up of scholarly "possession," Roland steals the letters, and decides to discover their addressee. Suddenly, Roland comes across two drafts of a letter to an unnamed woman who was definitely not Ash's wife. There, a postdoctoral researcher named Roland Mitchell is poring through a dusty old book that was once owned by the celebrated nineteenth-century poet Randolph Henry Ash. Possession opens up in the London Library in the autumn of 1986.
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