Cover of Giving Up the Ghost

Giving Up the Ghost

by Hilary Mantel

2003 223 pages eng

At no. 58 the top of my head comes to the outermost curve of my great-aunt, Annie Connor. Her shape is like the full moon, her smile is beaming; the outer rim of her is covered by her pinny, woven with tiny flowers. It is soft from washing; her hands are hard and chapped; it is barely ten o'clock an…

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