Tag: Mann Booker Prize

Fiction, History, Literary Awards

Wolf Hall: Parts 1-3 by Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel has burst onto my bookshelves and claimed a spot as my new favorite author. I purchased Wolf Hall last year from amazon.uk. It spent a few months on my nightstand - six hundred and fifty pages is a large time commitment and I usually save the heftier tomes for vacations. But Vacant Possession hooked me. Fortunately Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel is … Continue reading Wolf Hall: Parts 1-3 by Hilary Mantel

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Fiction, Suspense

Vacant Possession by Hilary Mantel (plot spoilers)

Vacant Possession is a sequel. Let’s start there. It takes place ten years after the events of Hilary Mantel’s first novel, Every Day is Mother’s Day, and follows the lives of the characters introduced in the first book. I was unaware of this until I’d finished Vacant Possession. Nowhere on my copy does it state that the book is a sequel. In fact, the only … Continue reading Vacant Possession by Hilary Mantel (plot spoilers)

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