An epic love story of two people of insight and imagination seeking escape from the cant and tyranny of their age. To the last detail of dress, idiom and manners, John Fowles immaculately recreates Victorian England in the greatest of his novels, which has been the subject of universal acclaim since its first publication.
"You can read this book again and again, always finding something new and always falling in love with the hapless Charles" - Daily Mail
"A brilliant success... It is a passionate piece of writing as well as an immaculate example of storytelling" - Financial Times
"Compulsively readable" - Irish Times
"A splendid, lucid, profoundly satisfying work of art, a book which I want almost immediately to read again" - New Statesman
"Brilliant...an artist of great imaginative power" - Sunday Times
