Teresa Waugh
Seeing Spirits
ONE OF THE joys of Hilary Mantel is that she always takes you by surprise. She is incapable of a mundane thought or a &tile sentence. This she has proved time and again in her novels and so it may be with something like awe that the reader will approach her autobiography. It is certainly quite unlike any other autobiography that this reviewer has ever read.
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