Learning to talk : stories / Hilary Mantel.

"In the wake of Hilary Mantel's brilliant conclusion to her award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. Sharp and funny, these drawn-from-life stories begin in the 1950s in an insular northern village "...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022 (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022.
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Children > Fiction.
Parent and child > Fiction.
Enfants > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Children.
Short stories.
Autobiographical fiction.
Fiction.
Nouvelles.
Genre:
Fiction.
Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Short stories.
Autobiographical fiction.
Nouvelles.
Physical Description:xiii, 157 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • King Billy is a gentleman
  • Destroyed
  • Curved is the line of beauty
  • Learning to talk
  • Third floor rising
  • The clean slate
  • Giving up the ghost.