Giving Up The Ghost Author:Hilary Mantel I postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel grew up convinced that the most extraordinary feats were within her grasp. At nineteen, 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 a novel, and ... more »then another. This is a dazzling, wry, and visceral memoir that will bring new converts to Mantel's dark genius.« less