So good, it feels a little arrogant to even consider reviewing it. She is the only person ever to win the prize for 2 novels in a trilogy.įor me, Wolf Hall was a brilliant literary read, but Bring up the Bodies was so good it astonished me. Mantel won the 2009 Booker Prize for Wolf Hall and took out the 2012 Booker Prize after publication of the second book in the trilogy, Bring Up the Bodies. And her book Beyond Black certainly requires patient reading through its dense prose style but this is repaid a thousandfold by the wickedly dark humour and magnificent imagination driving one of the weirdest books ever written.īut Wolf Hall? And Bring Up The Bodies? These books are simply in another league. In fact, halfway through her enormous 1992 novel about the French Revolution, A Place of Greater Safety, I was wondering if I’d live long enough to get to the end of it. “I read another book by Hilary Mantel and didn’t like it.”
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