I have always felt Hilary Mantel is more than a writer of great ability. Something not of this world? Perhaps all great writers have an “otherness’ about them.
I knew next to NOTHING about the Tudors when I started Wolf Hall. for those who havent read it, PLEASE don't let that disuade you. It's an amazing book and you will pick up on enough history along the way to enjoy it
Love this interview, and all involved! Hilary Mantel is fascinatingly wonderful at what she does. (Also, this interviewer reminds me - looks wise - of Glenn Close in “Fatal Attraction.”)
I always read the book first as my imagination will cast my characters, so my Thomas Cromwell may not be somebody else's if they were then to watch the adaptation or the play. I didn't watch Wolf Hall as I wanted to live in the book myself.
Thought provoking, in ways I’d not expected and not thought of before, in regards to secrets. As someone who remembers past lives from a very young age, I knew what it is like to be male. I wonder if this can be part of a writer’s ‘imagination’, even when they don’t have access to those memories.
Wonderful interview. Thank you for posting. Mantel is a writer of the highest order.
RIP Hilary ❤
Extraordinary interview with two masters of their craft!
Bloody marvellous.
Great to see Harriet Walter in the current "Mirror and Light" BBC series
I have always felt Hilary Mantel is more than a writer of great ability. Something not of this world? Perhaps all great writers have an “otherness’ about them.
She's so damn clever and insightful. Out of this world for sure 👍
Two wonderful women. A great actor and a great writer. A suberb interview. RIP Hilary x
I knew next to NOTHING about the Tudors when I started Wolf Hall. for those who havent read it, PLEASE don't let that disuade you. It's an amazing book and you will pick up on enough history along the way to enjoy it
Fascinating discussion!
My dream: a cup of tea with Hilary Mantel.
Love this interview, and all involved! Hilary Mantel is fascinatingly wonderful at what she does. (Also, this interviewer reminds me - looks wise - of Glenn Close in “Fatal Attraction.”)
agree, although maybe more of a caricature of Glenn Close in F.A.
when the interviewer leans forward i think robert plant
I won't be IGNORED, Hilary.
The interviewer asks well formed and appropriate questions.
I always read the book first as my imagination will cast my characters, so my Thomas Cromwell may not be somebody else's if they were then to watch the adaptation or the play. I didn't watch Wolf Hall as I wanted to live in the book myself.
Thought provoking, in ways I’d not expected and not thought of before, in regards to secrets. As someone who remembers past lives from a very young age, I knew what it is like to be male. I wonder if this can be part of a writer’s ‘imagination’, even when they don’t have access to those memories.
Blimey! Doesn't Harriet know that loads of men played women parts and vice vesa ? It's not new love?
Spiritual infuence.