- Spiritualists, Divorced women, Women mediums, Fiction
Alison Hart is a medium by trade: dead people talk to her, and she talks back. With her flat-eyed, flint-hearted sidekick, Colette, she tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital road, passing on messages from dead ancestors: 'Granny says she likes your new kitchen units.' Alison's ability to communicate with spirits is a torment rather than a gift.
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Contemporary, classical in form, prestige and bleak.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Hilary Mantel
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 451
- Publisher
- "ĖKSMO", Holt & Company, Henry, Henry Holt and Co.
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- und, Russian, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781405613637
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“Travelling: the dank oily days after Christmas.”
Hilary Mantel is the two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize for her best-selling novels, *Wolf Hall*, and its sequel, *Bring Up the Bodies*—an unprecedented achievement. The Royal Shakespeare Company recently adapted *Wolf Hall* and *Bring Up the Bodies* for the stage to colossal critical acclaim and a BBC/Masterpiece six-part adaption of the novels will broadcast in 2015. The author of fourteen books, including *A Place of Greater Safety*, *Beyond Black,* and the memoir *Giving up the Ghost*, she is currently at work on the third installment of the Thomas Cromwell Trilogy. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://hilary-mantel.com/
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