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THE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS

In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it Ink is a generative fluid she explains If you dont mean your words to breed consequences dont write at all A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this writing over four decades

Her subjects are wideranging sharply observed and beautifully rendered She discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging our dream life popping into our conscious life the mythic legacy of Princess Diana the many themes that feed into her novelsrevolutionary France psychics Tudor England and other novelists from Jane Austen to VS Naipaul She writes about her father and the man who replaced him she writes fiercely and heartbreakingly about the battles with her health that she endured as a young woman and the stifling years she found herself living in Saudi Arabia Here too is her legendary essay Royal Bodies on our endless fascination with the current royal family

From her unusual childhood to her allconsuming interest in Thomas Cromwell that grew into the Wolf Hall trilogy A Memoir of My Former Self reveals the shape of Hilary Mantels life in her own luminous words through messages from people I used to be Filled with her singular wit and wisdom it is essential reading from one of our greatest writers

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