performs as if from the depths of a well, her prolonged bleakness pierced by splinters of beauty and treacherous wit. “Grimly seductive a writer of dark extremities. With Beyond Black shows us how fiction can lift us into the extraordinary.” - The Washington Post Book World Mantel's writing is so exact and brilliant that, in itself, it seems an act of survival, even redemption.” - The New Yorker More people really need to get with the concept that Mantel is one of the best writers in England.” - Zadie Smith “Spooky, smart, and deep.” - Claire Dederer, New York magazine the possessor of a peerless prose style.” - John Banville Hilary Mantel's humor, like Flannery O'Connor's, is so far beyond black it becomes a kind of light.” - The New York Times Book Review “A terrible and swirling horror-comedy about a very fat medium on the perimeter of the M25, haunted by mean and nasty spirits, veering between damnation and the trivial.” - A. A chilling masterpiece.” - Philip Pullman “The strangest, creepiest, most sorrow-and-pity-inducing book I've read for a very long time.
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