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Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies have chalked up:
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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⭐" title="Mittelgroßer Stern" aria-label="Emoji: Mittelgroßer Stern"> An RSC play (which won two Olivier Awards and a Tony)
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⭐" title="Mittelgroßer Stern" aria-label="Emoji: Mittelgroßer Stern"> A TV adaptation (which won three Baftas and a Golden Globe)
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"I just wanted to sleep. I don’t have any rituals around writing. Strong tea is my greatest vice. So I think it was just a matter of, ‘Put the kettle on, Gerald’"
They met when they were 16 and married four years later. For a decade they have lived in Devon, in an apartment overlooking the sea
Gerald McEwen is her husband of 49 years (with a break of two, when they got divorced and then remarried) and a retired geologist. They met when they were 16 and married four years later. For a decade they have lived in Devon, in an apartment overlooking the sea" title="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💍" title="Ring" aria-label="Emoji: Ring"> Gerald McEwen is her husband of 49 years (with a break of two, when they got divorced and then remarried) and a retired geologist. They met when they were 16 and married four years later. For a decade they have lived in Devon, in an apartment overlooking the sea" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
Mantel is the first woman to have won a Booker prize twicehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⭐" title="Mittelgroßer Stern" aria-label="Emoji: Mittelgroßer Stern"> Last year she was made a Companion of Literature (the highest award bestowed by the Royal Society of Literature)https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⭐" title="Mittelgroßer Stern" aria-label="Emoji: Mittelgroßer Stern"> In 2006 she was awarded a CBEhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⭐" title="Mittelgroßer Stern" aria-label="Emoji: Mittelgroßer Stern"> In 2014 she became a Dame" title="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⭐" title="Mittelgroßer Stern" aria-label="Emoji: Mittelgroßer Stern"> Mantel is the first woman to have won a Booker prize twicehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⭐" title="Mittelgroßer Stern" aria-label="Emoji: Mittelgroßer Stern"> Last year she was made a Companion of Literature (the highest award bestowed by the Royal Society of Literature)https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⭐" title="Mittelgroßer Stern" aria-label="Emoji: Mittelgroßer Stern"> In 2006 she was awarded a CBEhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⭐" title="Mittelgroßer Stern" aria-label="Emoji: Mittelgroßer Stern"> In 2014 she became a Dame" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
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"I wish the Queen had felt able to abdicate, because Charles has had to wait such a long time. I understand that she thinks of this as a sacred task, from which you simply cannot abdicate, whereas the rest of us think of it as a job, from which you should be able to retire"" title="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👑" title="Krone" aria-label="Emoji: Krone"> "I wish the Queen had felt able to abdicate, because Charles has had to wait such a long time. I understand that she thinks of this as a sacred task, from which you simply cannot abdicate, whereas the rest of us think of it as a job, from which you should be able to retire"" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
"I wonder if she’s the only person who really believes in the monarchy now, and I’m sure she believes with all her heart. She believes that she cannot cease to be a monarch – she made those promises to God. It’s such a cliché to say, but what a lonely position to be in"" title="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👑" title="Krone" aria-label="Emoji: Krone"> "I wonder if she’s the only person who really believes in the monarchy now, and I’m sure she believes with all her heart. She believes that she cannot cease to be a monarch – she made those promises to God. It’s such a cliché to say, but what a lonely position to be in"" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
When she was six, her mother’s lover, Jack Mantel, moved in and her father moved to the spare room.
At 11, her father left. She never saw him again
"I just woke up one day and didn’t believe anything any more...And after encountering various priests, I began to think that they were rather worse than the average human being, not better"
When Mantel was 12 she lost her religion."I just woke up one day and didn’t believe anything any more...And after encountering various priests, I began to think that they were rather worse than the average human being, not better"" title="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken"> When Mantel was 12 she lost her religion."I just woke up one day and didn’t believe anything any more...And after encountering various priests, I began to think that they were rather worse than the average human being, not better"" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
"For a time I thought there was nothing, that the world is all there is, the material is all that matters. But I don’t think that now"
Now, she says, she has a religious mindset and a spiritual outlook, but doesn’t observe any particular faith. "For a time I thought there was nothing, that the world is all there is, the material is all that matters. But I don’t think that now"" title="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken"> Now, she says, she has a religious mindset and a spiritual outlook, but doesn’t observe any particular faith. "For a time I thought there was nothing, that the world is all there is, the material is all that matters. But I don’t think that now"" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
In her early 20s she suffered nausea and agonising menstrual cramps. Doctors diagnosed depression; one suggested it was stress caused by her ambition, another recommended she give up writing
"Too much active endometriosis had been left behind, and it continued to damage my body...My body was unreliable and life was quite narrow and effortful"
"I had developed a steroid moonface. My hair had come out in handfuls. I was deaf, my eyesight was blurred by constant headaches, and my legs were swollen like bolsters"
She was put on a reckless-sounding trial-and-error hormone treatment. She went from a size eight to an 18."I had developed a steroid moonface. My hair had come out in handfuls. I was deaf, my eyesight was blurred by constant headaches, and my legs were swollen like bolsters"" title="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💊" title="Tablette" aria-label="Emoji: Tablette"> She was put on a reckless-sounding trial-and-error hormone treatment. She went from a size eight to an 18."I had developed a steroid moonface. My hair had come out in handfuls. I was deaf, my eyesight was blurred by constant headaches, and my legs were swollen like bolsters"" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
