A review by bookpossum
Vacant Possession by Hilary Mantel

3.0

This takes the reader to some very dark places indeed, and asks uncomfortable questions about what happens to the people turned out into the world from the old asylums. If the system was no longer able to support them there, how could it possibly support them when they were set adrift? And without support, what might a person like Muriel Axon do to herself and others?

A clever and unsettling book.