Giving Up the Ghost

Name: Giving Up the Ghost
Author: Hilary Mantel

by Hilary Mantel

Memoir exploring family trauma, loss, and the author's path to becoming a writer

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Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel was one of the greatest British novelists of her generation, whose Thomas Cromwell Wolf Hall trilogy blends historical fiction with thriller-like plotting and psychological intensity. Her murder mystery Beyond Black is a harrowing ghost story that is among the finest British horror novels of the 21st century. She is the first woman to win the Booker Prize twice.

More by Hilary Mantel

Wolf HallHistorical novel reimagining the rise of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII
Bring Up the BodiesSequel exploring Cromwell's ascendancy as he orchestrates the fall of Anne Boleyn
The Mirror and the LightFinal trilogy installment chronicling Cromwell's power and its ultimate dissolution under Henry VIII
Beyond BlackNovel of a medium and her fractured relationships with family and the living world
FluddNovella of a woman who discovers an emaciated saint-like figure in her English convent
A Change of ClimateNovel set in post-colonial Africa following British missionaries caught between faith and survival