Hilary Mantel
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
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Hilary Mantel's memoir, A Memoir of My Former Self, collects her finest writing over four decades, covering topics such as nationalism, health, and literature. It offers a glimpse into her life and thought, showcasing her talent as a writer and critic.
Format: Hardback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 19 October 2023
Publisher: John Murray Press
A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century
Guardian
Like hearing the voice of an old friend
Observer
Extraordinary . . . a quality of timelessness and prescience
New Statesman,Book of the Year
Magical . . . Here we meet not just Mantel the Cromwell-catcher,but Mantel the quill-sharp critic of contemporary life
The Times,Book of the Year
THE MAGNIFICENT FINAL BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE WOLF HALL TRILOGY
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.
Ink is a generative fluid, she explains.
If you don t mean your words to breed consequences,don t write at all.
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.
Here,too,is a selection of her film reviews - from When Harry Met Sally to RoboCop - and,published for the first time,her stunning Reith Lectures,which explore the process of art bringing history and the dead back to life.
From her unique childhood to her all-consuming fasc.
Weight: 652g
Dimension: 240 x 165 x 39 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399813884
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