Beyond Black: A Novel [Paperback]

The New York TimesNotable Book of the Year
Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction

The strangest, creepiest, most sorrow-and-pity-inducing book I've read for a very long time . . . [and] a great ghost story. A chilling masterpiece.
Philip Pullman, author ofHis Dark Materialsseries

Considered one of the greatest writers of her generation, Man Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel delivers a mid-career masterwork, as dark as it is riveting.

Colette and Alison are unlikely cohorts: one a shy, drab beanpole of an assistant, the other a charismatic, corpulent psychic whose connection to the spiritual world torments her. When they meet at a fair, Alison invites Colette at once to join her on the road as her personal assistant and companion. Troubles spiral out of control when the pair moves to a suburban wasteland in what was once the English countryside. It is not long before the place beyond black threatens to uproot their lives forever. This is Hilary Mantel at her finestinsightful, darkly comic, unorthodox, and thrilling to read.

Hilary Mantelwas the author of the bestselling novelWolf Halland its sequel,Bring Up the Bodies, which both won the Booker Prize. The final novel of the Wolf Hall trilogy,The Mirror & the Light, debuted at #1 onThe New York Timesbestseller list and won world-wide critical acclaim. Mantel wrote seventeen celebrated books, including the memoirGiving Up the Ghost, and she was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Walter Scott Prize, the Costa Book Award, the Hawthornden Prize, and many other accolades. In 2014, Mantel was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She died at age seventy in 2022.

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