A review by sujuv
Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir by Hilary Mantel

4.0

A beautifully written book - no surprise there - but it took me a while to get into it. It's a memoir of Mantel's childhood and early adulthood which included illness and infertility. After spending a while in her younger years she admits she's postponing getting to the tough stuff and for me that's where the book took off. It is not an ordinary memoir at all. It does roughly follow a chronology but it's impressionistic and certainly not about laying out a formal storyline. Well worth it once I got hooked.