"Mantel is a master storyteller, and here she's just having a wickedly good time." --San Francisco Chronicle

"It would be hard to over emphasize the mean pleasure to be found in Vacant Possession." --Kathryn Harrison, The New York Times

"Mantel imbues her writing with a unique combination of exhileration and dread. . . . She shows us how fiction can lift us into the extraordinary." --Meg Wolitzer, The Washington Post Book World

"Savage and funny black humour at its best." --Observer (London)

"Hilary Mantel's wit is wonderfully and startlingly nasty." --Sunday Times (London)

"Filled with fiish glee . . . Lie back and laugh yourself silly: this is the best s-up for a long, long time." --New Statesman