In a series of vivid,enthusiastic conversations on the books they love, novelist A.S. Byatt and the psychoanalyst IgnÒes SodrÔe bring their different backgrounds and professional experiences of 'reading' to bear on six great novels by women writers: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Charlotte BrontÞe's Villette, George Elliot's Daniel Deronda, Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Iris Murdoch's An Unofficial Rose, and Toni Morrison's Beloved.