Her novel Beyond Black, about a medium who is tormented by her acquaintances, both the living and the dead, was shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction.

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She portrayed Smith as a woman so tormented by her failures in life that she even failed at her own suicide and jumped out of the car.

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