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Giving up the ghost
(a memoir)
By Mantel, Hilary
- ISBN
- 978-0-80507-472-7
- Publisher
- New York : Henry Holt, 2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2003
In this memoir, Mantel (A Change of Climate) provokes myriad emotions in readers as she tells of her life growing up in England after World War II. Her early years revolved around her mother, various stepfathers, and her Catholic schools. She looks back on her education with a combination of pathos and hilarity, at one point saying, "I was both too old and too young for the place I had arrived at. My best d...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
