Book description
Just after 'Bring Up the Bodies' author Hilary Mantel won the Man
Booker for 'Wolf Hall', she fell gravely ill. This is her remarkable
hospital diary.
Originally published in the London Review of Books, this diary by the
acclaimed author Hilary Mantel explores in forensic detail her loss of
dignity, her determination, the concentration of the senses into an
animalistic struggle to get through, and the attendant hallucinations
she was plagued by during her stay in hospital.
With her health now improved, and the acknowledgement of the Man Booker
prize-winning follow-up to 'Wolf Hall', 'Bring Up the Bodies' as one of
our greatest works of fiction, 'Ink in the Blood' remains a significant
testament to the traumas of illness, and one of the most incredible and
haunting essays published in a very long time. Hilary Mantel is the
author of thirteen books , including A PLACE OF GREATER SAFETY, BEYOND
BLACK, and the memoir GIVING UP THE GHOST. Her two most recent novels,
WOLF HALL and its sequel BRING UP THE BODIES have both been awarded The
Man Booker Prize - an unprecedented achievement.
