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Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (Paperback)

Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (Paperback)

Hilary Mantel

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From the two-time Man Booker Prize winner, a prescient and haunting novel of life in Saudi Arabia. Frances Shore is a cartographer by trade, a maker of maps, but when her husband's work takes her to Saudi Arabia she finds herself unable to map the Kingdom's areas of internal darkness. The regime is corrupt and harsh, the expatriates are hard-drinking money-grubbers, and her Muslim neighbours are secretive, watchful. The streets are not a woman's territory; confined in her flat, she finds her sense of self begin to dissolve. She hears whispers, sounds of distress from the 'empty' flat above her head. She has only rumours, no facts to hang on to, and no one with whom to share her creeping unease. As her days empty of certainty and purpose, her life becomes a blank - waiting to be filled by violence and disaster.

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780007172917

Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel is an English author who has written short stories, essays, biographies and, most famously, historical fiction. She is one of only a few authors to have won the Man Booker Prize twice, for Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies.
She was born in Glossop, Derbyshire and studied Law at the London School of Economics. She moved to Botswana in 1977 with her husband and later spent four years in Saudi Arabia. Her memoir of this period, Someone to Disturb, won The Spectator's inaugural Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize.
Before the success of Wolf Hall she had written nine successful books and regularly wrote for The Spectator and other magazines and newspapers.
In an interview published in The Guardian in 2014, Mantel confessed to fantasizing about the murdering of Margaret Thatcher in 1983, and fictionalised the event in a short story called The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher.

Book and writing awards

Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize 1990 (Fludd), Hawthornden Prize 1996 (An Experiment in Love), Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2009(Wolf Hall), Walter Scott Prize 2010 (Wolf Hall) and Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2012 (Bring Up the Bodies).