Giving up the Ghost: Memoir
Mantel, Hilary
From one of Britain`s finest authors, a wry, shocking and beautifully-written memoir of childhood, ghosts (real and metaphorical), illness and family. `Giving up the Ghost` is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel`s uniquely unusual five-part autobiography. Opening in 1995 with `A Second Home`, Mantel describes the death of her stepfather which leaves her deeply troubled by the unresolved events of her childhood. In `Now Geoffrey Don`t Torment Her` Mantel takes the reader into the muffled consciousness of her early childhood, culminating in the birth of a younger brother and the strange candlelight ceremony of her mother`s `churching`. In `Smile`, an account of teenage perplexity, Mantel describes a household where the keeping of secrets...
ISBN: 978-0-00-714272-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
