Beyond Black

Vacant Possession

A Place of Greater Safety

Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

A Change of Climate

An Experiment in Love

The Giant O’Brien

Fludd

Giving Up the Ghost

About the Author

Among HILARY MANTEL’s novels are A Change of Climate, A Place of Greater Safety, and Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. She has also written a memoir, Giving Up the Ghost. A winner of the Hawthornden Prize, she reviews for The New York Times and The New York Review of Books and lives in England.

Copyright

Copyright © 2005 by Hilary Mantel

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Mantel, Hilary, [date]

Beyond black : a novel / Hilary Mantel.—1st ed.

p. cm.

“A John Macrae book.”

1. Female friendship—Fiction. 2. Divorced women—Fiction. 3. Women mediums—Fiction. 4. Spritualists— Fiction. 5. England—Fiction. I. Title. PR6063.A438B49 2005 823’.914—dc22

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