Hilary Mantel has passed

[hermetic]

Sept. 22 from complications of a stroke that had occurred three days earlier. Sad. She was younger than me.

She wrote 12 novels, two collections of short stories, a personal memoir, and numerous articles and opinion pieces. Mantel won the Booker Prize twice: the first was for her 2009 novel Wolf Hall, a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII, and the second was for its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. The third instalment of the Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, was longlisted for the same prize.

I enjoyed her books; thought she was a great writer.

RIP

[Scrivener7]

1. Oh, NO! I have read those three books a half-dozen times each.

They are so deceptively dense with information and character development. I've found something new in each reading.

May she rest in peace.

[HardPort]

2. The Wolf Hall trilogy is, to me, the greatest work of historical fiction ever made.

I was truly saddened to hear of her passing, and wish her family peace at this sad time.

[Genki Hikari]

3. What a shame RIP

I know she had a great many fans.

I had to watch the PBS series of Wolf Hall, because her use of present tense annoyed me. A contemporary artsy book of 200 pages? Sure. That, I can sorta understand. But a historical novel over 550 pages long?

Nope. No can do.

It's the past. Use the past tense!