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Beyond black mantel5/29/2023 Indeed, her mother feels that it could be one of any number of men and does not care. Her mother was a prostitute and neither Alison nor her mother has any idea who her father was. As we gradually discover, she had a grim childhood. Not only is she able to speak to the dead (a term, of course, strictly forbidden in her profession) but she sees various spirit guides, the shapes of those departed, who, in her case, are those who were around in her childhood. The story is about Alison Hart, a woman who has the gift. As she comments, the spirit world is a bit like Aldershot which, for those not familiar with this town, is a fairly grim and bourgeois garrison town in the South of England. The temptation for many a writer would be to mock or to go super-Gothic but Mantel does neither, rather telling her story in a more or less realist fashion but peppered with wit and insight into the life of ordinary people. Once again Mantel shows us that she is one of the finest writers in England today, tackling what could be a tricky subject, that of spiritualism and the spirit world. Home » England » Hilary Mantel » Beyond Black Hilary Mantel: Beyond Black
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