Vacant Possession

Hilary Mantel

Original title: Vacant possession

earliest edition we have, 1986 H. Holt and Co., 2000 242 pages

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...

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Vacant Possession paperback · 2010 · Picador · 256 pages · 9780312668044
Vacant Possession edition · 2010 · HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 256 pages · 9780007354870
Vacant Possession edition · 2010 · Holt & Company, Henry · 9781429954570
Vacant Possession edition · 2006 · HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9781841153407
Vacant possession edition · 2000 · H. Holt and Co. · 242 pages
Vacant possession edition · 1987 · Penguin Books · 239 pages
Vacant possession edition · 1986 · Chatto & Windus · 256 pages

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