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Hilary Mantel on Learning to Talk

Writer Hilary Mantel on why she’s leaving England and her book “Learning to Talk”

“An unhappy childhood is a treasure for a writer,” says Hilary Mantel in this CBS Saturday Morning interview about her story collection Learning to Talk, which was first published in England in 2003 and published in the U.S. for the first time by Henry Holt this month. The stories feature young characters growing up in mid-twentieth-century England and are inspired by Mantel’s childhood.

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Learning to Talk
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2022
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