A Memoir of My Former Self : A Life in Writing
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'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I
think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.'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 fascination
with Thomas Cromwell that grew into the Wolf Hall Trilogy, A Memoir
of My Former Self reveals the shape of Hilary Mantel's life in her
own dazzling words, 'messages from people I used to be.'
Compelling, often very funny, always luminous, it is essential
reading from one of our greatest writers.'A smart, deft,
meticulous, thoughtful writer, with such a grasp of the dark and
spidery corners of human nature' Margaret Atwood
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