A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
Hilary Mantel
John Murray £25
‘On Sunday last, I had a shock waking up to find that my novel Wolf Hall was 2-1 favourite to win the Man Booker prize.’
So wrote Hilary Mantel in September 2009. ‘It was almost as much of a shock to be described in the press (repeatedly) as “the 57-year-old from Glossop”.’
This was for a piece in the about the invisibility of women past
