03698cam a2200649 4500 2666467222 TxAuBib 20260124120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250350459 125035045X dd98f2a9-4c48-49db-afad-a2bdcc843bd1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10109461 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Mantel, Hilary. A Memoir of My Former Self [Libby Audiobook] : A Life in Writing. Macmillan Audio, 2023. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 449MB. Revolutionary France. thomas cromwell. Princess Diana. conscious life. tudor england. Royal Family. Booker Prize. royal bodies. nationalism. dream life. childhood. Belonging. Wolf Hall. novelist. psychics. royalty. British. England. family. health. Female. Essays. memoir. woman. HTML:<p>"Throughout, short sentences give pause, descriptions invite, and all make listeners appreciate and miss the genius of the late Mantel." - <i><b>AudioFile</b></i><br /> <b><br /> THE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS</b><br /> In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. "Ink is a generative fluid," she explains. "If you don't mean your words to breed consequences, don't write at all." <i>A Memoir of My Former Self</i> collects the finest of this writing over four decades.<br /> Her subjects are wide-ranging, sharply observed, and beautifully rendered. She discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging; our dream life popping into our conscious life; the mythic legacy of Princess Diana; the many themes that feed into her novels—revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor England; and other novelists, from Jane Austen to V.S. Naipaul. She writes about her father and the man who replaced him; she writes fiercely and heartbreakingly about the battles with her health that she endured as a young woman, and the stifling years she found herself living in Saudi Arabia. Here, too, is her legendary essay "Royal Bodies," on our endless fascination with the current royal family.<br /> From her unusual childhood to her all-consuming interest in Thomas Cromwell that grew into the Wolf Hall trilogy, <i>A Memoir of My Former Self</i> reveals the shape of Hilary Mantel's life in her own luminous words, through "messages from people I used to be." Filled with her singular wit and wisdom, it is essential reading from one of our greatest writers.<br /> <b>A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt &amp; Company.</b></p>. Biography & Autobiography. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-01-24 20:00:02. Enright, Anne. Dawson-Hunte, Aurora. Miles, Ben. Hamilton, Bill. Wymark, Jane. Leonard, Lydia. Pearson, Nicholas. Waters, Sarah. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=dd98f2a9-4c48-49db-afad-a2bdcc843bd1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)