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Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel was born in Derbyshire. She was educated at a convent and later studied law. After ten years abroad in Africa and the Middle East, she returned to Britain in 1985 to make a career as a writer. She is working on her ninth novel.
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Books
Bring Up the Bodies Bring Up the Bodies
By 1535 Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith’s son, is far from his humble...
Wolf Hall Wolf Hall
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies...
Fludd Fludd
A new Harper Perennial edition of one of Hilary Mantel′s classic...

Interview

Hilary Mantel talks to Sarah O’Reilly

What made you a writer, and when did you realise that writing was where your future lay?

I realised quite late in life, as these things go. A lot of people know they’re going to be writers when they’re children, but I made a conscious decision to become one when I was 22, when, because of my poor health, I saw other career prospects slipping away from me. I knew I could write – you couldn’t take the decision otherwise – but what I didn’t know was whether I could write...

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