'Byatt, who won the Booker for her novel Possession, recalled how her publishers had tried to remove the chunks of ''Victorian'' prose and poetry. ''I wept and wept,'' she said. ''No one could have been more surprised than me that it did so well. I thought it was a niche book for academics. Which shows that you should always write a romance.'''
from the Guardian
When I read this my heart swelled. I am glad AS Byatt ( which even her grandchildren call her, affectionately of course) stuck to her guns. Could you imagine this novel without its brilliant Victorian ventriliquism? Therein lies its spell I believe.
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