![]() ![]() Black, she had said, black and perfectly plain. It was Colette who had persuaded her into black. Colette looped the black skirt on to a hanger, and hung it on the back of the long mirror. Alison and Collette have a strange relationship. When you’ve been gone for an hour or two, I wonder if I’ve imagined you.’.Did you actually believe in Alison and her world view, or did you think it was possibly a hoax or even psychosis brought on by childhood abuse?. ![]() How did you find the experience of reading Beyond Black?.It is not long before the place beyond black threatens to uproot their lives forever. It was shortlisted for a 2006 Commonwealth Writers Prize and for the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction. Troubles spiral out of control when the pair moves to a suburban wasteland in what was once the English countryside. Beyond Black (2005) tells the story of Alison, a Home Counties psychic, and her assistant, Colette. When they meet at a fair, Alison invites Colette at once to join her on the road as her personal assistant and companion. Colette and Alison are unlikely cohorts: one a shy, drab beanpole of an assistant, the other a charismatic, corpulent psychic whose connection to the spiritual world torments her. Our book group choice for October 2015 is Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel. ![]()
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