Reading Hilary Mantel

From the ghosts which reside in Midlands council houses in <i>Every Day is Mother's Day</i>to the resurrected historical dead of the Booker Prize-winning <i>Wolf Hall</i>and <i>Bring up the Bodies</i> the writings of Hilary Mantel are often haunted by supernatural figures. One of the first book-length studies of the writer's work <i>Reading Hilary Mantel</i> explores the importance of ghosts in the full range of her fiction and non-fiction writing and their political social and ethical resonances. Combining material from original interviews with the author herself with psychoanalytic historicist and deconstructivist critical perspectives <i>Reading Hilary Mantel</i>is a landmark study of this important and popular contemporary novelist.