Beyond Black

MagnificentIts one of the greatest ghost stories in the language, but its far more than just a ghost story its a novel of desperate truthfulness a majestic work, truly. Philip Pullman Sparkling, sinister and supremely original. Sunday Telegraph As black as a tar barrel and very, very funny. The Times Laceratingly observant, a masterpiece of wit, heavy with atmosphere. It is also gloriously insolent and slyly funny: full of robust, uncluttered prose and searing moments.' Independent Pins elusive Middle England to the page in all its creepiness: a place blank and disconnected, yet fatally self-absorbed. Rachel Cooke, Observer An elegant, atmospheric tale and a nuanced portrait, full of ironies. Tatler 'Chilling, creepy and endlessly inventive.' Kate Saunders, The Times Hilary Mantel has done something extraordinary. She has taken the ethereal halfway house between heaven and hell, between the living and the dead, and nailed it on the page. Fay Weldon, Guardian Has the kind of gallows humour that makes you laugh out loudA real page-turner, a darkly humorous take on the enduring effects of childhood trauma. Mslexia 'A deep, disturbing, violently amusing and subversive work. Daily Telegraph

Hilary Mantel is the author of seventeen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, the memoir Giving Up the Ghost and the short story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. Her latest novel, The Mirror & the Light, won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, while Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were both awarded the Booker Prize.