Her days and nights are haunted by the men she knew in her childhood, the thugs and petty criminals who preyed upon her hopeless, addled mother, Emmie. She knows that the next life holds terrors that she must conceal from her clients. Behind her plump, smiling and bland public persona is a desperate woman. With her flat-eyed, flint-hearted sidekick, Colette, she tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital road, passing on messages from dead ancestors: 'Granny says she likes your new kitchen units.'Alison's ability to communicate with spirits is a torment rather than a gift. An hilarious and sinister tale of dark secrets and secret forces in suburban England - Beyond Black is the new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Giving Up the Ghost.Alison Hart is a medium by trade: dead people talk to her, and she talks back.
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