In The Observer Tim Adams has a Q & A with Hilary Mantel.
Adams asks her about her phenomenal "success, late-ish in your career"; oddly, while a big fan early on, I haven't been to eager too plunge into the career-making historical novels of recent vintage. But then the one early novel I couldn't bring myself to read -- A Place of Greater Safety -- was also a historical monstrosity.
Fiction, folks -- stick to fiction. Real fiction, not the based-on stuff.
Adams asks her about her phenomenal "success, late-ish in your career"; oddly, while a big fan early on, I haven't been to eager too plunge into the career-making historical novels of recent vintage. But then the one early novel I couldn't bring myself to read -- A Place of Greater Safety -- was also a historical monstrosity.
Fiction, folks -- stick to fiction. Real fiction, not the based-on stuff.