![]() It is an unethical decision that could cost him his job, but he is obsessed with finding out the identity of the woman in the letters. Roland recklessly decides to slip the letters into his notebook and essentially steals them from the London Library. The letters are written to an unknown woman who is not Ash's wife. They are stuck between the pages of one of Ash's books and have obviously not been found by anyone else. ![]() He is completing some research in the London Library when he discovers two unfinished letters written in the hand of the famous Victorian poet, Randolph Henry Ash. Roland Michell is an unknown English scholar with a mediocre part-time job as a research assistant. All of these elements come together brilliantly in a novel that explores possession in the context of romantic love and in the ethical or non-ethical behavior of biographers. ![]() Byatt, is indeed a romance, but it is also a mystery, a chase, a satire, and both historical and contemporary fiction. ![]()
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