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Post by treehugger on Feb 20, 2013 10:15:12 GMT -5
I just read the piece she wrote on royal bodies (you know, the piece the press is slating her for "criticising" Kate) and it was so beautifully well written. Now I want to read one of her books, but I don't know where to start. Does anyone have a suggestion?
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Post by lillielangtry on Feb 20, 2013 10:45:18 GMT -5
I am a big Mantel fan, but it's difficult to recommend as her style really varies quite a lot.
I guess it probably makes sense to start with the book she won the (first) Booker for, Wolf Hall. There are people here who hated it, as we have discussed several times, but it's a "big" novel in scope, language, and ambition.
However, I also really enjoyed her memoir, Giving up the Ghost, and the first of her novels I ever read, An Experiment in Love. You don't hear much about that last one, it's one of the early ones, but it's a fairly short novel about a group of girls starting uni in London in the '70s. It's a world away from Wolf Hall, that's for sure, but it made such an impression on me as a teenager about to go off to university myself. One of the books I'll never forget and I'm always telling people about.
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Post by Queen on Feb 20, 2013 13:28:57 GMT -5
Interesting isn't it - I read that piece as criticising the media's stereotyping portrayal of Kate, rather than a criticism of Kate herself.
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