Giving up the Ghost: A memoir

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Hilary Mantel. Giving up the Ghost: A memoir

Giving Up the Ghost. A Memoir. Hilary Mantel

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Contents

PART ONE A Second Home

PART TWO Now Geoffrey Don’t Torment Her

PART THREE The Secret Garden

PART FOUR Smile

PART FIVE Show Your Workings

Afterlife

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For my family

The wind rises, clouds cover the moon, a dog’s bark and those owls, Alone and no end.

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‘Ward’ means watch, it can be a place of surveillance, it can be the name for a defensible segment within a castle: a place for sentinels.

I have a friend. It is Evelyn, a Protestant. I go down the yard to play with her. Evelyn’s mother is wrapped about and about in a big pinny. She is cheerful and talks in a Scottish way. My mother calls her Kath, which I think a melting name. She teaches me to say Kirkcudbrightshire. When she gives me my dinner she puts the salt already on it: Grandad has noticed that I don’t take salt, but she can’t know that. Her legs in thick dark stockings are the shape of bottles, so when anyone says ‘Stout’ I think of Evelyn’s mum.

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