If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy.
Hilary Mantel Quotes
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.
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| Birth: | 6th July, 1952 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Writer |
About
Hilary Mary Mantel is an English writer whose work ranges in subject from personal memoir and short story to historical fiction and essay. She has twice been awarded the Booker Prize. She won her first Booker Prize for the 2009 novel, Wolf Hall, a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII.
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