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Beyond Black

By: Hilary Mantel
Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
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Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital ring road with her flint-hearted sidekick, Colette, passing on messages from beloved dead ancestors. But behind her plump, smiling persona hides a desperate woman: she knows the terrors the next life holds but must conceal them from her wide-eyed clients. At the same time she is plagued by spirits from her own past, who infiltrate her body and home, becoming stronger and nastier the more she resists....

©2005 Hilary Mantel (P)2006 Isis Publishing Ltd Classics Dark Humour Genre Fiction Horror Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Satire Suspense Thriller & Suspense Urban Scary Comedy Fiction Heartfelt
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Ik heb me door de heerste helft van het boek heen geworsteld, Daarna zat er wat meer verhaal in. De humor was goed, maar de manier waarop het drama werd weer gegeven toch wat smakeloos.

Quite sick

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wonderfully crafted story, as you expect from Mantel. Bentinck does a great job as narrator, she gives you exactly the experience you want from an audio book.

lovely twist in the tail

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'Darkly comic' doesn't seem to quite do this novel justice. Yes, it's funny in part, with plenty of one-liners that made me laugh out loud. But at the same time it's just about as dark as you can get without tipping over into genre fiction (i.e. thriller/horror). Very different from Mantel's beloved Wolf Hall trilogy, but equally well-written and absorbing.

CW for child abuse

Darkly comic

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While I usually love Hillary Mantels novels this one is overly long , complicated , I gave up on it.

Disappointing Book

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The reader was fantastic however while it began as funny and entertaining it moved into a disintergrating relationship bereeen the 2 protagonists. I found it depressing but needed to finish and was relieved when I did.It was towards the end that the reason for the spirits being so unpleasant was realised.

Hard labour

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