Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir

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Fourth Estate, 2003 - Biography & Autobiography - 246 pages
"Giving Up the Ghost" is novelist Hilary Mantel's autobiography in fiction and non-fiction. It deals with childhood, ghosts (real and metaphorical), illness and family.

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About the author (2003)

Hilary Mantel was born in Derbyshire. She was educated at a convent and later studied law. After ten years abroad in Africa and the Middle East, she returned to Britain in 1985 to make a career as a writer. She is working on her ninth novel.

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