![]() She worked in a geriatric hospital and in a department store. During her university years, she was a socialist. Mantel graduated from the University of Sheffield, with a B.A. To quote once more from Giving Up the Ghost: “The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me.” Often I am ill.” Four years later, Jack Mantel and Hilary’s mother moved the family to Cheshire, after which Hilary never saw her father again. I don’t understand why they want to know but I don’t tell them anything. “The children at school question me about our living arrangements, who sleeps in what bed. ![]() Her memoir, Giving Up the Ghost, chronicles a grim childhood in a working-class Irish Catholic family: “From about the age of four I had begun to believe I had done something wrong.” When she was seven, her mother’s lover, Jack Mantel, moved in with the Thompsons. Hilary Mantel was born Hilary Thompson in Hadfield, Derbyshire, a mill town fifteen miles east of Manchester. ![]() Interviewed by Mona Simpson Issue 212, Spring 2015 ![]()
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