Vacant Possession (29 page)

VACANT POSSESSION.
Copyright © 1986 by Hilary Mantel. All rights reserved. For information, address Picador, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Henry Holt edition as follows:

Mantel, Hilary, 1952–

Vacant possession / Hilary Mantel.—1st Owl Books ed.

p. cm.

“An Owl book.”

ISBN: 978-0-8050-6271-7

1. Mentally ill offenders—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6063.A438V33 2000

823'.914—dc21

99033536

Originally published in the United Kingdom by Chatto & Windus

First published in the United States by Henry Holt and Company