Listen 9 min Share Comment on this story Comment Add to your saved stories Save A.S. Byatt, the Booker Prize-winning author of “ Possession, ” who grappled with history, tradition, science and myth in a six-decade career that established her as one of Britain’s most renowned novelists, died Nov.... For years, she had homes in the Putney section of South London and the Cévennes region of southern France.Ms.... Byatt credited the novel’s success to a new, looser approach she took in its creation

" I believe it’s love and hope that got me through," she says.... I thought,' I’ve had such a good life', and I want my kids to live their lives, to follow their dreams.... She even carried on her job as a senior public health specialist until she was diagnosed with her first brain tumour in November 2018....