
Hilary Mantel | Giving up the Ghost | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves
When Dame Hilary Mantel died, many readers of her novels learned more about her life and her heroic struggle with the serious medical condition from which she suffered for many years without a diagnosis. Nowhere is this more vividly or more movingly described than in her own powerful and haunting memoir. It is a story of ‘wraiths and phantoms’, a story not easy to forget.