Meanwhile, Colette books the dingy civic buildings and village halls in the urban sprawl along London’s orbital freeway she performs sound checks, hands the mike around the audience, haggles drinks from the house, and wrangles the motor lodge receptionists if she isn’t entirely free from doubt, still she sees enough to know Al is sparing the “punters” the grimmer details of the afterlife.
In Beyond Black, the Spirit World is all too real, if surprisingly trivial, and Alison does commune with the dead, though this does not exempt her from the canny guesswork and little frauds that keep a good psychic stage show working. Before Hilary Mantel double-Bookered with her Cromwell novels, she wrote the horror-comic novel Beyond Black (2005), a terrifically bleak study of a much-abused medium, Alison, and her hard-nosed stage manager, Colette.
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