A memoir of my former self and other writings : a life in writing / Hilary Mantel.
By: Mantel, Hilary [author.].
Contributor(s): Miles, Ben [narrator.].
Publisher: Rearsby : Clipper Audiobooks, 2024Description: 13 CDs (923 min.) : digital, stereo.Content type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9781004146321 (CDs) :.Uniform titles: Works. Selections Subject(s): Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022 | AudiobooksDDC classification: 828.9'2'09 Narrated by Ben Miles [and seven others].Summary: As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. This strand of her writing was an integral part of how she thought of herself. 'A Memoir of My Former Self' collects the finest of this writing over four decades. Mantel's subjects are wide-ranging. She discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging; our dream life flopping into our conscious life; the mythic legacy of Princess Diana; the many themes that feed into her novels - revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor England - and other novelists, from Jane Austen to V.S. Naipaul. She writes about her father and the man who replaced him; she writes fiercely and heartbreakingly about the battles with her health she endured as a young woman, and the stifling years she found herself living in Saudi Arabia.| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Audiobooks | St Helens Library Talking Book | Available | 38055012940607 |
Narrated by Ben Miles [and seven others].
As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. This strand of her writing was an integral part of how she thought of herself. 'A Memoir of My Former Self' collects the finest of this writing over four decades. Mantel's subjects are wide-ranging. She discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging; our dream life flopping into our conscious life; the mythic legacy of Princess Diana; the many themes that feed into her novels - revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor England - and other novelists, from Jane Austen to V.S. Naipaul. She writes about her father and the man who replaced him; she writes fiercely and heartbreakingly about the battles with her health she endured as a young woman, and the stifling years she found herself living in Saudi Arabia.