A Memoir of My Former Self: Hilary Mantel's final book is a reminder of the many stories she still had to tell

By Jenni Ramone, Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures, Nottingham Trent University

In A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing, Hilary Mantel writes: “There is no failed writing, only work pending.” She’s referring to the 97 notebooks that she kept in a wooden box. Mantel promised: “There is nothing I won’t say, only what I haven’t said yet.”

These words were written in 2016, just after her epic novel of the French Revolution, A Place…

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