A Memoir of My Former Self

Resumen del libro

The magnificent final book from the bestselling author of the Wolf Hall Trilogy. 'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.' As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. This strand of her writing was an integral part of how she thought of herself. 'Ink is a generative fluid,' she explains. 'If you don't mean your words to breed consequences, don't write at all.' A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this writing over four decades.

Biografía del autor

Hilary Mantel (Reino Unido, 1952-2022) estudió Derecho en Londres y trabajó brevemente en un hospital geriátrico, experiencia que reflejó más tarde en sus novelas. En 1977 se trasladó a Botswana y en 1982 a Arabia Saudí, donde está ambientada su tercera novela. Obtuvo numerosos premios literarios por sus novelas y libros de viajes, pero su mayor éxito lo alcanzó con su trilogía de Thomas Cromwell, compuesta por En la corte del lobo, Una reina en el estrado y El trueno del reino.