

Vacant Possession
Author: Hilary Mantel
Narrator: Sandra Duncan
Unabridged: 9 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/25/2014
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Hilary Mantel
Narrator: Sandra Duncan
Unabridged: 9 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/25/2014
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
English author, Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, was born in Glossop, Derbyshire in 1952. She attended St. Charles Roman Catholic primary school in the mill village of Hadfield. Her parents were actually Irish descent, but were born in England. Mantel's father divorced her mother and left when she was eleven years old. She never saw him again. Her mother did not marry, but spent her life with Jack Mantel, from whom Hilary took his name as her surname. Her schooling ended with a bachelor's degree in Jurisprudence in 1973. She then worked in social work in a geriatric hospital.
Her books include historical fiction, including a trilogy about Thomas Cromwell's rise to power under King Henry VIII. They were Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror and the Light (which was just released in the UK in March of 2020). She twice won the Booker Award.
In keeping with her unconventional life, Hilary married Gerald McEwen, a geologist in 1972, and they lived in exotic places such as Botswana and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. They were divorced after he gave up geology to be her business manager, but then remarried.
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