Hilary Mantel, RIP
So sad to hear of the death of author Hilary Mantel, who suffered from pain for a significant part of her life.
Her historical trilogy about 16th-century royal adviser Thomas Cromwell fired my imagination with its present-tense, almost poetic writing. It made Cromwell and the people of his time as real as someone in the room. The books made you feel like…
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