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Rent Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir (John MacRae Books)
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Sep 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Literary
Retail Price: $18.99
Pages: 223
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.