A review by jayshay
Vacant Possession by Hilary Mantel

4.0

A Jacobean changeling revenge play, a ghost haunted world, an institutionalized world where Brits are dehumanized and alienated all in the effort to 'care' for them in way that is deeply uncaring. Muriel Axon is the monstrously wonderful axle around which this story of the destruction of a family rotates. She toys with the other characters in a dreaming, musing, vengeful way.

A disturbing book, which clings to my mind like some vicious animal, raking my brain with its claws. It doesn't even let the screams tail off, but cuts off mid-way -- so they never end.