A dazzling collection of short Stories from the two-time winner of the Booker Prize and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Wolf Hall trilogy. -- The Washington Post. -- USA Today Her short Stories always recognize other potential realities...
Even the most straightforward of Mantel\'s tales retain a faintly otherworldly air.
A book of her short Stories is like a little sweet treat...
Mantel\'s narrators never tell everything they know, and that\'s why they\'re worth listening to, carefully.
With a deceptively light touch, Mantel illuminates the poignant experiences of childhood that leave each of us forever changed.
In Third Floor Rising, she watches, amazed, as her mother carves out a stylish new identity.
The title story sees our narrator ironing out her northern vowels with the help of an ex-actress with one lung and a Manchester accent.
Curved Is the Line of Beauty is a story of friendship, faith and a near-disaster in a scrap-yard.
In King Billy Is a Gentleman, the child must come to terms with the loss of a father and the puzzle of a fading Irish heritage.
For the young narrator, the only way to survive is to get up, get on, get out.
Absorbing and evocative, these drawn-from-life Stories begin in the 1950s in an insular northern village scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues.
In the wake of Hilary Mantel\'s brilliant conclusion to her award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, Learning to Talk is a collection of loosely autobiographical Stories that locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood.
A dazzling collection of short Stories from the two-time winner of the Booker Prize and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Wolf Hall trilogy
