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Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir: John MacRae Books

Book ID
126908188
Publisher
Picador
Tongue
English
Weight
10 MB
Category
Standards

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✦ Synopsis

In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel grew up convinced that the most improbable of accomplishments, including "chivalry, horsemanship, and swordplay," were within her grasp. Once married, however, she acquired a persistent pain that led to destructive drugs and patronizing psychiatry, ending in an ineffective but irrevocable surgery. There would be no children; in herself she found instead one novel, and then another.

✦ Subjects

Биографии и Мемуары

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