Los fantasmas de una vida

As a Catholic girl from a humble family in the north of England, Hilary Mantel grew up in an austere and rigorous environment that, far from limiting her, nurtured an exuberant imagination that made her believe that the most extraordinary feats were within her reach; among them, becoming a knight-errant at the age of four. These fascinating memoirs are an attempt by the author to recapture the girl who was hers, and to do so before others begin to tell her story for her. They are her account of her difficult childhood and her adolescence, the moment in which she began to suffer the symptoms of a disease that, as an adult, would cause her great pain and take away the possibility of being a mother.