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Thriller
Hilary Mantel, Harper
Beyond Black lives up to all the high praise it has received, a novel you could genuinely describe as 'original' and 'chilling' if such words hadn't been rendered meaningless by endless blurbs.
The story revolves around Alison, a large woman whose ability to connect with the spirit world is not so much gift as curse.
Their tale, and the depiction of England's suburban wasteland where Alison and her like ply their trade, is a darkly subversive and comic counterpoint to the supernatural stock-in-trade of Ouija boards and exorcism, as much about our relationship with the past as our obsession with the afterlife.
In Mantel's world, ghosts are nudging us all around (look out for Princess Diana, whose death triggers a business boom).
The ghosts are neither evil demons nor benign divinities, just dead people carrying on 'airside'. This is more disturbing than it sounds. As Alison says: "They don't become decent people just because they're dead".
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