![]() ‘Beyond Black’ is a witty and deeply sinister story of dark secrets and forces, set in an England that jumps at its own shadow, a country whose banal self-absorption is shot through fear of the engulfing dark. They infiltrate her house, her body and her soul the more she tries to be rid of them, the stronger and nastier they become. Her days and nights are haunted the men she knew in her childhood, the thugs and petty criminals who preyed upon her hopeless, addled mother, Emmie. ![]() She knows that the next life holds terrors that she must conceal from her clients. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 July 2022 Verified Purchase If youve read it, you could think its a grim subject and strange to be a favourite. ![]() Behind her plump, smiling and bland public persona is a desperate woman. With her flat-eyed, flint-hearted sidekick, Colette, she tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital road, passing on messages from dead ancestors: 'Granny says she likes your new kitchen units.' Alison's ability to communicate with spirits is a torment rather than a gift. Alison Hart is a medium trade: dead people talk to her, and she talks back. ![]() Hilarious and sinister, ‘Beyond Black’ is a tale of dark secrets and secret forces in suburban England. Hilary Mantels humor, like Flannery OConnors, is so far beyond black it becomes a kind of light. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. ![]()
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