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About Hilary Mantel
British writer
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel was a British writer best known for historical fiction, as well as memoir and short stories. Her work ranged across several forms, and she published from the mid-1980s onward. Her first novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day, appeared in 1985. Over her career she wrote 12 novels, two short story collections, a memoir, and many articles and opinion pieces.
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- “For I chase but one hind, he says, one strange deer timid and wild, and she leads me off the paths that other…”Hilary Mantel
- “Last night he kept the vigil alone. He lay awake, wishing Liz back; waiting for her to come and lie beside hi…”Hilary Mantel
- “He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.”Hilary Mantel
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- “Reading books might itself be a bit weird, but obviously okay, since books were part of school, and doing wel…”Michael Dirda
- “Under Milk Wood' was given to me when I was quite young, in Sydney. I didn't even know what Wales was, let al…”Princess Michael of Kent
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Books by Hilary Mantel
Bring Up the Bodies
2013
Wolf Hall
2015
The Mirror and the Light
2020
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
2014
An Experiment in Love
2007