Book 55: "Beyond Black" by Hilary Mantel
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kittiwakeIf someone offered you psychic powers, the ability to communicate with the dead would not be a good one to choose. The dead are devious, spiteful and importunate, and Alison Hart is never free of them. Her spirit guide, Morris, is the bane of her life, tormenting her and wrecking her attempts to make her life better, while his constant jibes remind her of events from her childhood that she only half remembers and would rather forget altogether.
When she takes on a business partner, Collette takes on the the strain of organising Alison's professional life, smoothing her way as they work the dormitory towns of Southern England, and meet up with other psychics at psychic fairs. But Collette is a cold and heartless person, who doesn't really believe in Alison's powers and antagonises the psychics who are her only friends.
I enjoyed this book a lot, and was glad to see that Collette got what she deserved in the end.
I didn't think I'd read anything else by Hilary Mantel, but on reading the descriptions of her other titles at the end of this book I realised that I have read both "Eight Months on Ghazzah Street" and "Fludd".
When she takes on a business partner, Collette takes on the the strain of organising Alison's professional life, smoothing her way as they work the dormitory towns of Southern England, and meet up with other psychics at psychic fairs. But Collette is a cold and heartless person, who doesn't really believe in Alison's powers and antagonises the psychics who are her only friends.
I enjoyed this book a lot, and was glad to see that Collette got what she deserved in the end.
I didn't think I'd read anything else by Hilary Mantel, but on reading the descriptions of her other titles at the end of this book I realised that I have read both "Eight Months on Ghazzah Street" and "Fludd".
