If it is true, as Saint Augustine says, that the dead aren't absent but merely invisible, then somewhere round about, as I write about her and you read about her, Hilary Mantel is present.
For some people, being dead is only a relative condition.
Not long afterward I went with a friend to the opening run of the adaptation of Wolf Hall in the West End, and as we sidled into our seats, there she was, sitting with her husband, Gerald McEwen, directly behind us.
Mantel died suddenly and unexpectedly at the age of seventy in September 2022, a week before a planned move to Kinsale in Ireland.
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