Vacant Possession - Softcover

Mantel is a master storyteller, and here she's just having a wickedly good time. "San Francisco Chronicle"

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 exhileration and dread. . . . She shows us how fiction can lift us into the extraordinary. "Meg Wolitzer, The Washington Post Book World"

Savage and funny black humour at its best. "Observer (London)"

Hilary Mantel's wit is wonderfully and startlingly nasty. "Sunday Times (London)"

Filled with fiish glee . . . Lie back and laugh yourself silly: this is the best s-up for a long, long time. "New Statesman""

"Mantel is a master storyteller, and here she's just having a wickedly good time." --San Francisco Chronicle

"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 exhileration and dread. . . . She shows us how fiction can lift us into the extraordinary." --Meg Wolitzer, The Washington Post Book World

"Savage and funny black humour at its best." --Observer (London)

"Hilary Mantel's wit is wonderfully and startlingly nasty." --Sunday Times (London)

"Filled with fiish glee . . . Lie back and laugh yourself silly: this is the best s-up for a long, long time." --New Statesman

Hilary Mantel is the bestselling author of many novels including Wolf Hall, which won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Bring Up the Bodies, Book Two of the Thomas Cromwell Trilogy, was also awarded the Man Booker Prize and the Costa Book Award. She is also the author of A Change of Climate, A Place of Greater Safety, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, An Experiment in Love, The Giant, O'Brien, Fludd, Beyond Black, Every Day Is Mother's Day, and Vacant Possession. She has also written a memoir, Giving Up the Ghost. Mantel was the winner of the Hawthornden Prize, and her reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books. She lives in England with her husband.