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Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Oct. 22nd, 2009 10:13 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London’s orbital road with her flint-hearted sidekick Colette, passing on messages from dead ancestors. But behind her plump, smiling persona is a desperate woman: the next life holds terrors that she must conceal from her clients, and her own waking hours are plagued by the spirits of men from her past. They infiltrate her house, her body and her soul, and the more she tries to be rid of them, the stronger and nastier they become ...
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
A dark novel told at a thoughtful pace, that combines spiritualism with grim reality with such skill that it’s well worth a read.
Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London’s orbital road with her flint-hearted sidekick Colette, passing on messages from dead ancestors. But behind her plump, smiling persona is a desperate woman: the next life holds terrors that she must conceal from her clients, and her own waking hours are plagued by the spirits of men from her past. They infiltrate her house, her body and her soul, and the more she tries to be rid of them, the stronger and nastier they become ...
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
A dark novel told at a thoughtful pace, that combines spiritualism with grim reality with such skill that it’s well worth a read.
