In 1974, she began writing a novel about the French Revolution, but was unable to find a publisher (it was eventually released as A Place of Greater Safety in 1992). In 1973 she married Gerald McEwen, a geologist. After university, Mantel worked in the social work department of a geriatric hospital and then as a sales assistant at Kendals department store in Manchester. She transferred to the University of Sheffield and graduated as a Bachelor of Jurisprudence in 1973. In 1970, she began studies at the London School of Economics to read law. She attended Harrytown Convent school in Romiley, Cheshire. When the family relocated, Jack Mantel (1932–1995) became her unofficial stepfather, and she legally took his surname. Four years later, when she was eleven, the family, except for her father, moved to Romiley, Cheshire, to escape the local gossip. He shared a bedroom with her mother, while her father moved to another room. When Mantel was seven, her mother's lover, Jack Mantel, moved in with the family.
Her parents, Margaret (née Foster) and Henry Thompson (a clerk), were both Catholics of Irish descent, born in England. Hilary Mary Thompson was born on 6 July 1952 in Glossop, Derbyshire, the eldest of three children, with two younger brothers, and raised as a Roman Catholic in the mill village of Hadfield where she attended St Charles Roman Catholic Primary School. The third instalment of the Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, was longlisted for the same prize. Mantel won the Booker Prize twice: the first was for her 2009 novel Wolf Hall, a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII, and the second was for its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. She went on to write 12 novels, two collections of short stories, a personal memoir, and numerous articles and opinion pieces.
Her first published novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day, was released in 1985. From the BBC programme Bookclub, 6 October 2013 ĭame Hilary Mary Mantel DBE FRSL ( / m æ n ˈ t ɛ l/ man- TEL born Thompson 6 July 1952 – 22 September 2022) was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories.
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