A memoir of my former self : a life in writing
Mantel, Hilary, 1952-20222024
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As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. This strand of her writing was an integral part of how she thought of herself. 'A Memoir of My Former Self' collects the finest of this writing over four decades. Mantel's subjects are wide-ranging. She discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging; our dream life flopping into our conscious life; the mythic legacy of Princess Diana; the many themes that feed into her novels - revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor England - and other novelists, from Jane Austen to V.S. Naipaul. She writes about her father and the man who replaced him; she writes fiercely and heartbreakingly about the battles with her health she endured as a young woman, and the stifling years she found herself living in Saudi Arabia.
Main title:
A memoir of my former self : a life in writing / Hilary Mantel.
Author:
Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022, authorMiles, Ben, narrator
Imprint:
Rearsby : Clipper Audiobooks, 2024.
Collation:
1 CD (923 min.) : digital, MP3 file
Performers:
Narrated by Ben Miles [and seven others].
ISBN:
9781004146345 (CD)
Dewey class:
828.9209
LC class:
PR6063.A438
Local class:
B/MAN
Language:
English
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BRN:
3660464