- Beyond Black
Infobox Book |
name = Beyond Black
image_caption =
author =Hilary Mantel
country =United Kingdom
language = English
genre =Paranormal novel
publisher =John MacRae Books (Hardcover)
pub_date = 2005
media_type = Print (Paperback )
pages = 384 pp
isbn = ISBN 0007157754"Beyond Black" is a 2005 novel by English writer
Hilary Mantel . It was shortlisted for the 2006Orange Prize for Fiction .Plot summary
The book's central character is a medium named Alison Hart who, along with her
assistant /business partner /manager , Colette, takes her one womanpsychic show on the road, travelling to venues around theHome Counties , and providing her audience with a point of contact between this world and the next. On the surface, Alison seems like a happy-go-lucky woman, but this persona is only a mask she wears for her public. In truth, she is deeply traumatised by memories and ghosts from her childhood, and a knowledge that theafterlife is not the wonderful place her clients often perceive it to be. She spends much of the story trying to exorcise herdemons , and by the end is ultimately able to overcome them. Beyond Black resounds with the residues of death around us, and how old wounds fester deep within all of us.References
*cite book | title=Beyond Black |last=Mantel | first=Hilary | publisher=Fourth Estate Press | location= | id=ISBN 0007157754 | date=2005
External links
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/orange2006/0,,1724699,00.html 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction]
* [http://www.laurahird.com/newreview/beyondblack.html A Review]
* [http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/050725crbo_books1 Profile of Hilary Mantel in The New Yorker]
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