biography
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Mantel, Hilary, (Mary)
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1952– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Hadfield, Derbyshire, N Engand, UK. Early novels - Every Day is Mother's Day (1985) and Vacant Possession (1986) - reflected her experience in social work. Later she lived in Saudi Arabia, which became the setting for a thriller, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (1988). In 1987 she won the first Shiva Naipaul Prize. Her novel Fludd (1989, Winifred Holtby Southern Arts and Cheltenham Festival of Literature prizes) was followed by a historical novel, A Place of Greater Safety (1992, Sunday Express Book of the Year), A Change of Climate (1994), and An Experiment in Love (1995). The Giant, O'Brien (1999), a thought-provoking narrative set in the 18th-c, won her much critical acclaim. |
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