Learning to Talk: Stories

Title: Learning to Talk: Stories Author: Hilary Mantel ISBN: 9781250825131 Publisher: Holt Paperbacks Published: 2023 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Fiction 1554897 Publisher Description: A dazzling collection of short stories from the two-time winner of the Booker Prize and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Wolf Hall trilogy. In the wake of Hilary Mantel's brilliant conclusion to her award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, Learning to Talk is a collection of loosely autobiographical stories that locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. Absorbing and evocative, these drawn-from-life stories begin in the 1950s in an insular northern village "scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues." For the young narrator, the only way to survive is to get up, get on, get out. In "King Billy Is a Gentleman," the child must come to t