From the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Possess and a Dame of the Order of the British Empire, come two subtly intertwined tales of the manners of Victorian nobility, brought together under the title Angels and Insects. It is “perhaps Byatt's best book since Possess” (Times Literary Supplement). Sincerity of feelings is combined here with intellectual play, historical authenticity with fiction. Here, a shipwrecked naturalist tries to find happiness in a family where secret passions are as incomprehensible as the behavior of insects, and followers of the Swedish mystic Swedenborg, who are fond of spiritualism, really find themselves at the mercy of a ghost... The story “Eugene's Morpho” served as the basis for the acclaimed film “Eugene's Morpho” by director Philip Haas. Angels and insects."