num_pages: 432
description: 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 finest--insightful, darkly comic, unorthodox, and thrilling to read.
language: English
title: Beyond Black
titlecomplete: Beyond Black
characters: Colette (Beyond Black), Alison Hart
genres: British Literature, Ghosts, Fantasy, Mystery, Novels, Supernatural, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 8524
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist
publisher: Picador