Vacant Possession, Paperback/Hilary Mantel

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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. About the Author 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.