BEYOND BLACK

By the author of the bestselling Cromwell series and 'The Mirror and the Light', this suspenseful novel is a masterpiece of dark humour and even darker secrets and has now made it on to the Collins Modern Classics series. Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital ring road with her flint-hearted sidekick Colette, passing on messages from beloved dead ancestors. But behind her plump, smiling persona hides a desperate woman. She knows the terrors the next life holds, but must conceal them from her wide-eyed clients. At the same time she is plagued by spirits from her own past who infiltrate her body and home, becoming stronger and nastier the more she resists. The novel was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. 451pp, paperback.