And the author has contributed an exclusive short story - The Heart Fails Without Warning - to The Guardian.
Postscript :
Robert McCrum sees similarities between Mantel and this week's Nobel prize winner, and salutes their hard work and dedication in the face of considerable adversity :
Müller suffered horribly under Ceaucescu, and her work has been shaped by political repression. Mantel's early adult life was blighted by a debilitating, undiagnosed illness. Müller committed herself to her writing in great privation and obscurity. Mantel laboured for years on a book (A Place of Greater Safety) that was repeatedly rejected, and finally shoved into a drawer before its belated publication in 1992. Now, after years of quiet dedication, both women have been fully recognised. This underlines a fundamental truism I have always believed about the book world: it's the work, not the life, that matters.
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I really liked that short story! And I've enjoyed every interview I've read with her -- she comes across as thoughtful and opinionated, my favourite kind of person :-). But for some reason I have very little desire to read Wolf Hall. I do want to read the Byatt and the Waters, though.
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