Every Day Is Mother's Day

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

Vacant Possession

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

EVERY DAY IS MOTHER’S DAY

EVERY DAY IS MOTHER’S DAY HILARY MANTEL

Picador

An Owl Book

Henry Holt and Company

New York

to the Bevington-Levitts

Two errors; one, to take everything literally;

two, to take everything spiritually.

PASCAL

Do not adultery commit;

Advantage rarely comes of it.

A. H. CLOUGH

EVERY DAY IS MOTHER’S DAY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4