Vacant Possession - Softcover

"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"

A dark and uproarious tale of revenge. Ten years have passed since Muriel Axon did her ma in, ten years of living in a mental asylum. But Muriel has not forgotten her welfare worker, Isabel, or her neighbor, Colin. Nor has she forgiven. There are still scores to be settled-and vengeance to be wreaked. In a novel that is wildly funny and daringly wicked, Mantel brings the full force of her black humor to bear on a cast of characters that is by turns wacky and malevolent. As Muriel dons disguises to get back at the world that imprisoned her, we follow a trail that is wonderfully macabre with enough twists and turns to qualify this book as a thriller.