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About the Author:
Hilary Mantel is the author of thirteen books , including A PLACE OF GREATER SAFETY, BEYOND BLACK, and the memoir GIVING UP THE GHOST. Her two most recent novels, WOLF HALL and its sequel BRING UP THE BODIES have both been awarded The Man Booker Prize - an unprecedented achievement.
Review:
'Mercilessly funny' Daily Telegraph`Mantel writes with wit, compassion and great elegance.' Independent on SundayOn `Giving Up the Ghost':'Like Lorna Sage's BAD BLOOD, GIVING UP THE GHOST is a story of childhood that is also a piece of history. Hilary Mantel's self-portrait is a masterpiece of wit, but it conjures up a time and a place and an epoch of female experience with razor-edged sobriety. That past, so thoroughly vanished, is made to live again here - disclosed, cannily and heartbreakingly, as once it too yielded up its author's mind.' Rachel Cusk`What a remarkable writer she is. She is piercingly, even laceratingly observant, and every remembered detail has the sharpness of a good photograph. And yet for all its brilliance of detail and its black comedy the memoir is heavy with atmosphere. It's a very startling and daring memoir; the more I read it the more unsettling it becomes.' Helen Dunmore`I was riveted. It's raw, it's distressing and it's full of piercing insights into a novelist's mind.' Margaret Forster
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- PublisherBBC Audiobooks
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1405632453
- ISBN 13 9781405632454
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages144
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