Posted on 25/06/05
If this is the afterlife . . .
Beyond BlackBy Hilary MantelHarperCollins, 451 pages, $34.99'What's to be done with the lost, the dead, but to write them into being?" Readers of Hilary Mantel's memoir, Giving Up the Ghost, where this statement in the form of a question appears, the very definition of her "project," will find little initially to surprise them in her new novel, Beyond Black. Both works touch upon themes of childhood innocence, bodily betrayal, the apprehension of evil and, to come down a bit, the miseries that result from buying a house in a new development.
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