Hilary Mantel is the author of ten novels, including Wolf Hall, winner of the Man Booker Prize. Her novel An Experiment in Love won the 1996 Hawthornden Prize. Her reviews and essays appear in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books.
ALSO BY HILARY MANTEL
Every Day Is Mother’s Day
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
Fludd
A Place of Greater Safety
A Change of Climate
An Experiment in Love
The Giant, O’Brien
Learning to Talk
Beyond Black
Wolf Hall
Nonfiction
Giving Up the Ghost
VACANT POSSESSION HILARY MANTEL
“…and that is what one does, one does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.”
GERTRUDE STEIN
“Can these bones live?”
EZEKIEL 37:3
CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
