Description
Alison Hart is a charismatic, overweight middle-aged medium who travels through London’s suburban circuit, delivering messages from the dead at psychic fairs and hotel gatherings. Accompanied by her sharp-edged assistant, Colette, and haunted by the sinister spirit world that has shadowed her since childhood, Alison must contend with forces no séance can safely contain. As the buried realities of her traumatic past begin to surface, this darkly comic and unsettling novel explores abuse, memory, performance, redemption, and the uneasy boundary between the living and the dead. With psychological acuity and richly observed social detail, it offers a vivid portrait of a damaged woman struggling to escape the ghosts that claim her.
Available Editions
paperback
Windsor
Published Jan 1, 2006
509 pages
ISBN: 9781405613620
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Details
First Published
2005
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel.