Hilary Mantel: The Waterstones Interview - Wolf Hall Trilogy 

Oh no! Didn't know she had passed! I was so very sad to hear this!! What a great lady and author she was.

@@ElizabethF2222 She died of a stroke, yes. Indeed, one of the best authors.

@@carl-heinjeneke5186 Thank you! Was just reading about it! What a great loss to the literary world. I have read the Wolf Hall Trilogy and of course, couldn't get enough of the series on Prime video. She put so much life and imagination into her characters. She is one of those authors who really makes you feel like you are right there in the scene. RIP Dame Hilary. You will be missed!

At this political time I take comfort from the idea of her story about Thatcher, with the current nightmare budget and persecution of queer people strong in my mind.

Really appreciate these kind words. That was indeed exactly what I was trying to do. If you get the chance to speak with Hilary Mantel, you let her speak!

@@WaterstonesTV Well done, Sir, and thank you for it.

@@WaterstonesTV You did an excellent job of presenting Hilary in all her glory (love her) while staying in the background at the same time. Sign of an extremely professional journalist.

Yes! Absolutely. An excellent interviewer and a fascinating, thoughtful set of answers from this extraordinary writer. I loved this!

Monica Call high praise ! I am late to the party. I cannot wait to get my hands on the first book. Thank you for your comments.

Amen to this.

I agree! I've re-read the first two of the trilogy several times for the joy of it, and am on my second read-through of The Mirror and the Light. One thing that knocks me out is the extraordinary *immediacy* that Mantel has created. We are familiar with the history, but when I first read the books, I was frequently thinking, "What is going to happen?!"

What high praise

s ash thank you. Have you read the WH trilogy yet? Mantel was a literary and historical genius. How I hate having to refer to her in the past tense now! Her passing just gutted me for a couple of weeks because I knew that she would never publish anymore books. Mantel’s greatest gift to her WH readers was that even if we already knew about Thomas Cromwell she brought him to life in such a way that even though I knew how his life ended it absolutely felt like I was learning about it for the very first time. My dear friend and honorary daughter and I read the first two books together. Because my copy of TMATL came before hers she begged me to call her any time of the day or night to tell her that I’d finally finished it. So, when I finished it at 3:00a.m. I did just that, even though I was weeping hard. Two weeks later I got a phone call at 2:00a.m. from her and we cried together for over an hour on the phone. Neither of us had ever had such an emotional response to the end of a book and to the end of a series like that before. We probably never will again. I bless Hilary Mantel for giving me the gift of surprise and tears plus a complete reevaluation of Thomas Cromwell. May she rest happy knowing the joy that she brought to millions of readers everywhere.

Every time someone is interviewed beside bookshelves😂

All the time!

All the time. It's my favourite pastime during late night shows ZOOM interviews.

Sera Nelson She Wolves Blood Will Tell Houses of Power Private Lives of Tudors

Hello how are you doing?

Hello 👋 how are you doing?

Hemant Devkar It forms the last contiguous thread and is excellent!

Simon Vance is perfect, yes.

Jennifer Bell She Wolves Blood Will Tell Houses of Power Private Lives of Tudors (messed around with a screen shot)

You need to read the fabulous Matthew Shardlake novels by C.J. Sansom. Full of Richard Rich. And not in a good way.

@@BrianXMoore I have all of them. But they are NOT about Richard Rich. He only gets mentioned here and there like many others also.

I’d love someone to create a story round Francis Walsingham, there’s so much scope considering his profession.

Roche was truly the ultimate villain in Tudor history. I think that Cromwell was still able to listen to his conscience even at the end. I recently read a commentary about Riche which said that he was a person of whom no one who knew him, even his family, had a good thing to say about him.

Monica Call Yeh, I saw that too. The ultimate man with no conscience, he’d do as well today as he did then probably better.

My local independent book store is getting it next Tuesday

Reading about 50 pages a day.....so rich and beautiful. Something to do in lieu of going about in public, which is starting to look like not a good idea.

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@@franklinstephen3268 Well not so well ATM thank you. Just found out that Dame Hilary has passed away of a stroke. I think her death got lost in all the burial ceremonies for Her Majesty, the Queen. I was so saddened to hear of her death. Such a great loss to the literary world.