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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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- “Give me a book,” she said. “A book of sermons, anything.”“What do you want a book for?”“I want words. I’ve go…”Hilary Mantel
- “I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.”Hilary Mantel
- “Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoug…”Hilary Mantel
- “Novelists, it seems to me, are the very last people who should be asked to comment on the news of the day, an…”Hilary Mantel
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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