Buy Giving Up the Ghost. United States Bookshop US. Other countries Bookshop UK Blackwell's. The StoryGraph is an affiliate of the featured links. We earn commission on any purchases made. The first and foremost ghost, though, is the baby she will never have. By 20, Mantel is in constant pain from endometriosis, and at 27, after years of misdiagnosis and botched treatment, she has an.
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Given Up The Ghost
- The first and foremost ghost, though, is the baby she will never have. By 20, Mantel is in constant pain from endometriosis, and at 27, after years of misdiagnosis and botched treatment, she has an.
- Giving up the Ghost is a 2003 autobiographical memoir by novelist Hilary Mantel. Incorporating elements of fantasy, it explores themes of childhood, ghosts (both real and imagined), sickness, and family.
- Giving up the Ghost is a 2003 autobiographical memoir by novelist Hilary Mantel. Incorporating elements of fantasy, it explores themes of childhood, ghosts (both real and imagined), sickness, and family.
'Like Lorna Sage's Bad Blood ... A masterpiece.' Rachel Cusk
Giving Up the Ghost is the shocking and beautiful memoir, from the author of Wolf Hall , Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light
'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 has become a way of life. Finally, at the memoir's conclusion, Mantel explains how through a series of medical misunderstandings and neglect she came to be childless and how the ghosts of the unborn like chances missed or pages unturned, have come to haunt her life as a writer.
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