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Angels and insects

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From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession, The Frederica Quartet, and The Children's Book, and from Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, come two interconnected novellas about the mores of the Victorian nobility, collectively titled Angels and Insects. This is "arguably Byatt's best book since Possession" (Times Literary Supplement). It combines sincerity with intellectual play, historical accuracy with fiction. Here, a shipwrecked naturalist tries to find happiness in a family where secret passions are as inscrutable as the behavior of insects, and followers of the Swedish mystic Swedenborg, fascinated by spiritualism, actually find themselves in the grip of a ghost...

The story "Morpho Eugenia" served as the basis for director Philip Haas's acclaimed film "Angels and Insects" (starring Mark Rylance and Kristin Scott Thomas).
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