This is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel's uniquely unusual five-part autobiography.
Opening with 'A Second Home', in which Mantel describes the death of her stepfather, Giving Up the Ghosts is a wry, shocking and beautifully-written memoir of childhood, ghosts (real and metaphorical), illness and family. Finally, at the memoir's conclusion, Mantel explains how a series of medical misunderstandings and neglect left her childless, and how the ghosts of the unborn have come to haunt her life as a writer.
Miira
29/08/2020
Captivating, beautifully written and remorable. One will forget that they are listening to an autobiography, so carefully and skillfully crafted story of Mantel's past. If you like reading Hilary Mantel, this is for you. Minus for the reader - weird it not being the author themself and I found the tone of the reader's voice not always matching the atmosphere.
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