Vacant Possession
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ISBN10: 031266804X
ISBN13: 9780312668044
Trade Paperback
256 Pages
$21.00
Ten years have passed since Muriel Axon was locked away for society's protection, but psychiatric confinement has only increased her malice and ingenuity. At last free, she sets into motion an intricate plan to exact revenge on those who had her put away. Her former social worker, Isabel, and her old neighbors have moved on, but Muriel, with her talent for disguise, will infiltrate their homes and manipulate their lives, until all her enemies are brought together for a gruesome finale. Hilary Mantel's razor-sharp wit animates every page of this darkly comic tale of retribution.
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Praise for Vacant Possession
"It would be hard to over-emphasize the mean pleasure to be found in Vacant Possession."—Kathryn Harrison, The New York Times
"Mantel imbues her writing with a unique combination of exhilaration and dread . . . She shows us how fiction can lift us into the extraordinary."—Meg Wolitzer, The Washington Post Book World
"Mantel is a master storyteller, and here she's just having a wickedly good time."—San Francisco Chronicle
"Savage and funny black humour at its best."—The Observer (London)
"Hilary Mantel's wit is wonderfully and startlingly nasty."—The Sunday Times (London)
"With this novel Mantel achieved full technical mastery, and she's only got better since."—Kirkus Reviews
"Surprise revelations from start to finish mark Mantel as a remarkably clever writer whose second book, paired with her first, makes for wickedly pleasurable reading."—Publishers Weekly
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VACANT POSSESSION
"I wonder who will be the new Poet Laureate?" said Colin Sidney, coming down to breakfast. There was no reply from the other residents at number 2, Buckingham Avenue. He paused on the half-landing, looking out of the...
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Hilary Mantel
