Allison, the daughter of a prostitute, has seen spirits since her unhappy childhood. It could be the opening act of a Noel Coward play, but Hilary Mantel is a champion of the unnerving. She seemed to be singing a comic song.īut Allison ignores the Princess's spirit, instead going on to answer another audience member's question about his dead father. "And Princess Margaret? Has she seen HRH her daughter?" It's not 14 million to one, like the national lottery, but you have to take into account that the dead, like the living, sometimes like to dodge and weave. In fact the chances are about the same as meeting somebody you know at a main line station in rush hour. "Have you had any communication from Her Majesty the Queen Mother? How is she faring in the other world? Has she been united with King George?" During one performance, an audience member asks Allison about the Queen Mother's The two women travel around England to psychic fairs, where Allison puts on shows in which she conveys messages from the dead to her audience. Allison (Al) is a timid, good-hearted medium Colette, her business manager, is a tightly-wound, "meagerly-built" divorcee looking to lay the blame for her misfortunes on someone, somewhere.
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