Her next book, The Giant, O'Brien (1998), is set in the 1780s, and is based on the true story of Charles Byrne (or O'Brien). He came to London to earn money by displaying himself as a freak. His bones hang today in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. The novel treats O'Brien and his antagonist, the Scots surgeon John Hunter, less as characters in history than as mythic protagonists in a dark and violent fairytale, necessary casualties of the Age of Enlightenment. She adapted the book for BBC Radio4, in a play starring Alex Norton (as Hunter) and Frances Tomelty. [31] a b Mantel, Hilary (1987). "Last Morning in Al Hamra". The Spectator . Retrieved 26 September 2022. verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ A Change of Climate (1994), set in rural Norfolk, explores the lives of Ralph and Anna Eldred, as they raise their four children and devote their lives to charity. It includes chapters about their early married life as missionaries in South Africa, when they were imprisoned and deported to Bechuanaland, and the tragedy that occurred there. [29] Mantel, Hilary (17 June 2017). "The Day Is for the Living". Reith Lectures. BBC Radio 4 . Retrieved 11 October 2022.

She has always existed on the margins: of her family, of her university group, of the expatriate communities in the Middle East and Africa, of literary London. The experience of being not quite at home, even when at home, has contributed to her life not only as a writer but as a reader. It is evident from her conversation, the bright life with which she invests her remarks about books and writers, that reading holds the same sort of status for her as writing. "If you grew up, as I did, a northerner, a Catholic, from an Irish family, you soon began to realise that there was this thing called 'Englishness', but it wasn't necessarily what you possessed. It was located somewhere else. It had different vowels. One of the things that engaged me right away about Kidnapped was that it wasn't written in 'English' English. I was not a Scot, but I could hear the language of Davie and Alan better than I could hear the dialect, the rhythms, of southern England." Mantel, Hilary (7 June 2004). " 'Every part of my body hurt' – Hilary Mantel on a little understood disease: endometriosis". The Guardian . Retrieved 17 January 2021. Marshall, Alex; Alter, Alexandra (23 September 2022). "Hilary Mantel, Prize-Winning Author of Historical Fiction, Dies at 70". The New York Times.Benfey, Christopher (29 October 2009). "Sunday Book Review of Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel". The New York Times. Hilary Mantel: 'Being a novelist is no fun. But fun isn't high on my list' ". The Guardian. 4 October 2020 . Retrieved 17 January 2021.

Oxford announces honorary degrees for 2015". University of Oxford. 19 February 2015 . Retrieved 30 January 2016. Writer Hilary Mantel is photographed for the Financial Times in London, England. (Photo by A.J.Levy/Contour)". Getty Images. 17 October 2012 . Retrieved 11 October 2022. Mantel was a Booker Prize judge in 1990, when A.S. Byatt's novel Possession was awarded the prize. [27] LSE Hilary Mantel obituary". London School of Economics. 23 September 2022 . Retrieved 28 September 2022. Mantel, Hilary (4 July 2017). "Can These Bones Live?". Reith Lectures. BBC Radio 4 . Retrieved 11 October 2022.

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Rahim, Sameer (29 January 2013). "Costa Book Award: who would dare refuse Hilary Mantel her crown?". The Telegraph. London . Retrieved 30 January 2013.Mantel married Gerald McEwen in 1973. They divorced in 1981 but remarried in 1982. [15] McEwen gave up geology to manage his wife's business. [59] They lived in Budleigh Salterton, Devon. [ when?] [46]