Rent Beyond Black

Synopsis

Alison Hart is a psychic who is tormented by her spirit guide, a nasty, clownish little creature named Morris who is visible only to Alison. Her life is enlivened, however, by her assistant, Colette, a divorc'e who’s been through the mill and who now manages the money Al earns from her career as a successful but mostly bogus psychic. Together, the women buy a brand-new house and, when they move in, Morris disappears. But Al’s troubles are far from over: her horrific childhood as the daughter of a prostitute comes to haunt her, first on tape and then in person, and it begins to seem that her life is being manipulated by none other than the devil himself. In her 10th novel, Hilary Mantel ventures into highly unusual territory, but her darkly comic outlook is deeply embedded in the story.

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