Black Comedies by Hilary Mantel

 

Hilary Mantel

BLACK COMEDIES

Hilary Mantel

My first two novels were very black comedies.

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The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.

A Place of Greater Safety

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It is almost a joke, but a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.

Wolf Hall

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Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time.