Hilary Mantel (1952-2022)

[Wowbagger]

Bugger! She's an author whose works I ought to have read more of. I must make amends asap.

[Ian H]

That was shockingly sudden.  She only lived a few miles from here, was planning to move to Ireland with her husband. 
Several of her books are on the shelves here.

[ian]

Bugger! She's an author whose works I ought to have read more of. I must make amends asap.

Honestly, while I'm sure I respect her erudition, I found her historical works heavy-going. You need an encyclopaedic knowledge of Thomases, just for starters.

[Canardly]

Yes they are not easy reading.

[Hot Flatus]

I read Wolf Hall and absolutely hated it. Found it pretentious beyond belief, until suddenly something clicked and it all made sense. Ended up loving it.

[Robh]

I honestly think that Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies are works of the very highest calibre. The Mirror & The Light, not so much; I struggled to get through it and suspected that that might have been because it had been a struggle for her to write. I got about a third of the way through her French Revolution book, A Place of Greater Safety, before giving up on account of needing to refer back to the list of characters too often. Although this had also been a feature of my reading her Cromwell books, it was - for me - less intrusive to the flow of the narrative in those books.

[T42]

That was shockingly sudden.  She only lived a few miles from here, was planning to move to Ireland with her husband. 
Several of her books are on the shelves here.

MrsT remarked that she'd been ailing for years.

Sad she's gone, I've enjoyed the novels of hers that I've read, particularly A Place of Greater Safety.